Matthew 10:32-39 - Acknowledging Christ
32 Whosoever therefore shall own me before men, him will I own likewise before my father who is in heaven. 33 but whosoever shall renounce me before men, him will I also renounce before my father who is in heaven. 34 don't imagine that I am come to bring peace upon the earth: I came not to bring peace, but war. 35 my coming will occasion discord between the son and his father, between the daughter and her mother, between the daughter in law and her mother in law: 36 even a man's own domestics shall prove his foes.
37 he that loveth father or mother more than me, is unworthy of me: he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is unworthy of me. 38 and he that does not take his cross, and so follow after me, is unworthy of me. 39 he that would preserve his life, shall lose it: and he that exposeth his life for my sake, shall save it.