Matthew 10:32-39 - Acknowledging Christ

³² "Therefore everyone who acknowledges me before people, I also will acknowledge him before my Father [who is] in heaven. ³³ But whoever denies me before people, I also will deny him before my Father [who is] in heaven. ³⁴ "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on the earth! I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. ³⁵ For 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. ³⁶ And the enemies of a man [will be] the members of his household.

³⁷ The 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. ³⁸ And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. ³⁹ The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it.