Matthew 10:32-39

32“Everyone who acknowledges me publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

33But 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.

36Your 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.

38If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine.

39If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.