²⁶“Therefore do not be afraid of them, because nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing secret that will not become known. ²⁷What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear in your ear, proclaim on the housetops. ²⁸And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul, but instead be afraid of the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. ²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?^f And one of them will not fall to the ground without the knowledge and consent^g of your Father. ³⁰And even the hairs of your head are all numbered! ³¹Therefore do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

³²“Therefore everyone who acknowledges me before people, I also will acknowledge him before my Father who is in heaven. ³³But whoever denies me before people, I also will deny him before my Father who is in heaven.

Not Peace, But a Sword of Divisiveness

³⁴“Do not think that I have come to bring peace on the earth! I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. ³⁵For I have come to turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. ³⁶And the enemies of a man will be the members of his household.^h ³⁷The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. ³⁸And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. ³⁹The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it.

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Footnotes

fLiterally, “an assarion,” a Roman coin worth about 1/16 of a denarius
gLiterally “without”; the phrase “the knowledge and consent” is implied when this term is used of God
hAn allusion to Mic 7:6