27. What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.
28. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
29. Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.
30. Even all the hairs on your head are numbered.
31. So do not be afraid; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
32. “Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.
33. But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.
34. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.
35. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,