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"For 1it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
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"2Brother will betraybrother to death, and a father his child; and 3children will rise up againstparents and cause them to be put to death.
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"4You will be hated by allbecause of My name, but 5it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.
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"But whenever they 6persecute you in onecity, flee to the next; for truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel7until the Son of Mancomes.
The Meaning of Discipleship
24"8A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a slaveabove his master.
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"It is enough for the disciple that he becomelike his teacher, and the slavelike his master. 9If they have called the head of the house10Beelzebul, howmuchmore will they malign the members of his household!
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"Therefore do not 11fear them, 12for there is nothingconcealed that will not be revealed, orhidden that will not be known.
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"13What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim14upon the housetops.
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"Do not fearthose who kill the body but are unable* to kill the soul; but rather15fear Him who is able to destroybothsoul and body in 16hell.
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"17Are not twosparrowssold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the groundapart from your Father.
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"But 18the veryhairs of your head are allnumbered.