The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
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29 Aren't sparrows sold for next to nothing, two for an assarion? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's consent.
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Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.
30 As for you, every hair on your head has been counted.
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And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 So do not be afraid, you are worth more than many sparrows.
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So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
32 "Whoever acknowledges me in the presence of others I will also acknowledge in the presence of my Father in heaven.
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“Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.
33 But whoever disowns me before others I will disown before my Father in heaven.
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But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
34 "Don't suppose that I have come to bring peace to the Land. It is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword!
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“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35 For I have come to set
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For I have come to turn “ ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
36 a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, so that a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.
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a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
37 Whoever loves his father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than he loves me is not worthy of me.
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“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 And anyone who does not take up his execution-stake and follow me is not worthy of me.
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Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
39 Whoever finds his own life will lose it, but the person who loses his life for my sake will find it.
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Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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