28. “Don’t be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
29. What is the price of two sparrows—one copper coin? But not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.
30. And the very hairs on your head are all numbered.
31. So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows.
32. “Everyone who acknowledges me publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.
33. But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven.
34. “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword.
35. ‘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.
36. Your enemies will be right in your own household!’
37. “If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.