Matthew 10:19-31

¹⁹Whenever they betray you, do not be anxious as to how you will speak or what you will say, for what you will say will be given you at the moment;

²⁰for it will not be you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaks within you.

²¹Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put to death;

²²and you will be hated by everyone because of me. Yet the person who endures to the end will be saved.

²³But, when they persecute you in one town, escape to the next; for, I tell you, you will not have come to the end of the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

²⁴A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

²⁵It is enough for a student to be treated 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!

²⁶Do not, therefore, be afraid of them. There is nothing concealed which will not be revealed, nor anything hidden which will not become known.

²⁷What I tell you in the dark, say again in the light; and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim on the housetops.

²⁸Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul; rather be afraid of him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for a one copper coin? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's knowledge.

³⁰While as for you, even the hairs of your head are numbered.

³¹Do not, therefore, be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.