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Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":24,"text":"A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":25,"text":"It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!","footnotes":[{"noteId":64,"offset":134,"text":"WH Beezeboul; Vulgate Beelzebub","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"heading","text":"Fear God Alone"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":26,"text":"So do not be afraid of them. For there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":27,"text":"What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":28,"text":"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.","footnotes":[{"noteId":65,"offset":135,"text":"Greek Gehenna","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":29,"text":"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.","footnotes":[{"noteId":66,"offset":38,"text":"Greek an assarion; that is, a Roman copper coin worth about 1/16 of a denarius","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"verse","number":30,"text":"And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":31,"text":"So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"heading","text":"Confessing Christ"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":32,"text":"Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":33,"text":"But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"heading","text":"Not Peace but a Sword"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":34,"text":"Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":35,"text":"For I have come to turn\n‘a man against his father,\na daughter against her mother,\na daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.","footnotes":[],"poem":[{"start":24,"end":50,"level":1},{"start":51,"end":81,"level":2},{"start":82,"end":126,"level":2}]},{"type":"verse","number":36,"text":"A man’s enemies will be the members\nof his own household.’","footnotes":[{"noteId":67,"offset":58,"text":"Micah 7:6","caller":"+"}],"poem":[{"start":0,"end":35,"level":1},{"start":36,"end":58,"level":2}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":37,"text":"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":38,"text":"and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":39,"text":"Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"heading","text":"The Reward of Service"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":40,"text":"He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives the One who sent Me.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":41,"text":"Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":42,"text":"And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”","footnotes":[]}],"footnotes":[]},"fullChapterApiLink":"/api/BSB/MAT/10.json"}