Matthew 10:32-39 - Acknowledging Christ
32 "Whoever, therefore, will confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever will deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven. 34 Think not that I have come to send peace on the earth. I have not come to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law: 36 and a man's enemies shall be those of his own household.
37 He that loves father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me: 38 and whoever does not take his cross and fol low after me, is not worthy of me. 39 He that finds his life shall lose it; and he that loses his life for my sake, shall find it.