Matthew 10:25-35

25 Enough for the learner to be on a level with his teacher, and for the servant to be on a level with his master. If they have called the master of the house Baal-zebul, how much more will they slander his servants?

26 Fear them not, however; there is nothing veiled which will not be uncovered, nor secret which will not become known.

27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what is whispered into your ear, proclaim upon the roofs of the houses.

28 "And do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

29 Do not two sparrows sell for a halfpenny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's leave.

30 But as for you, the very hairs on your heads are all numbered.

31 Away then with fear; you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows.

32 "Every man who acknowledges me before men I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in Heaven.

33 But whoever disowns me before men I also will disown before my Father who is in Heaven.

34 "Do not suppose that I came to bring peace to the earth: I did not come to bring peace but a sword.

35 For I came to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;