20. For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks through you.
21. “The brother will deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child. And the children will rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death.
22. You will be hated by all men for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
23. But when they persecute you in this city, escape into another. For truly I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
24. “The disciple is not above his teacher, nor the servant above his master.
25. It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household?
26. “Therefore do not fear them. For nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
27. What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light. And what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.
28. Do not fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
29. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father.
30. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31. Therefore do not fear. You are more valuable than many sparrows.
32. “Whoever will confess Me before men, him will I confess also 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.