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Matthew 10:36-42 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

36. Your worst enemies will be in your own family.

37. If you love your father or mother or even your sons and daughters more than me, you are not fit to be my disciples.

38. And unless you are willing to take up your cross and come with me, you are not fit to be my disciples.

39. If you try to save your life, you will lose it. But if you give it up for me, you will find it.

40. Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me. And anyone who welcomes me also welcomes the one who sent me.

41. Anyone who welcomes a prophet, just because that person is a prophet, will be given the same reward as a prophet. Anyone who welcomes a good person, just because that person is good, will be given the same reward as a good person.

42. And anyone who gives one of my most humble followers a cup of cool water, just because that person is my follower, will be rewarded.

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