Matthew 10:32
New International Version
“Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

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

English Standard Version
So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven,

Berean Standard Bible
Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.

Berean Literal Bible
Therefore everyone who will confess in Me before men, I also will confess in him before My Father in the heavens.

King James Bible
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.

New King James Version
“Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.

New American Standard Bible
“Therefore, everyone who confesses Me before people, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.

NASB 1995
“Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.

NASB 1977
“Everyone therefore who shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.

Legacy Standard Bible
“Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.

Amplified Bible
“Therefore, the one who confesses and acknowledges Me before men [as Lord and Savior, affirming a state of oneness with Me], that one I will also confess and acknowledge before My Father who is in heaven.

Christian Standard Bible
“Therefore, everyone who will acknowledge me before others, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
“Therefore, everyone who will acknowledge Me before men, I will also acknowledge him before My Father in heaven.

American Standard Version
Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Everyone, therefore, who will confess me before children of men, I shall confess him also before my Father who is in Heaven.

Contemporary English Version
If you tell others you belong to me, I will tell my Father in heaven you are my followers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

English Revised Version
Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father which is in heaven.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"So I will acknowledge in front of my Father in heaven that person who acknowledges me in front of others.

Good News Translation
"Those who declare publicly that they belong to me, I will do the same for them before my Father in heaven.

International Standard Version
"Therefore, everyone who acknowledges me before people I, too, will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

Literal Standard Version
Everyone, therefore, who will confess in Me before men, I also will confess in him before My Father who is in the heavens;

Majority Standard Bible
Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.

New American Bible
Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father.

NET Bible
"Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

New Revised Standard Version
“Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven;

New Heart English Bible
Everyone therefore who confesses me before people, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.

Webster's Bible Translation
Whoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven.

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

World English Bible
Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

Young's Literal Translation
'Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens;

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Context
Confessing Christ
31So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. 32Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven. 33But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven.…

Cross References
Luke 12:8
I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.

Luke 15:10
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner who repents."

Romans 10:9
that if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Revelation 3:5
Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.


Treasury of Scripture

Whoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.

confess me.

Psalm 119:46
I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

Luke 12:8,9
Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: …

John 9:22
These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

him.

Matthew 25:34
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

1 Samuel 2:30
Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

Revelation 3:5
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

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Matthew 10
1. Jesus sends out his apostles, enabling them with power to do miracles;
5. giving them their charge, teaches them;
16. comforts them against persecutions;
40. and promises a blessing to those who receive them.














(32) Shall confess me.--Literally, make his confession in and for me; and so in the corresponding clause. The promise points forward to the great day when the Son of Man shall be enthroned in His kingdom, and then before His Father and before the angels of God (Luke 12:8) shall acknowledge His faithful servants. The words are remarkable (1) in their calm assertion of this final sovereignty, and (2) in extending the scope of the discourse beyond the apostles themselves to all who should receive their witness.

Verses 32, 33. -

(2) The result of confessing and of denying Christ. (Cf. ver. 24, note.) Verse 32. - Whosoever; every one... who (Revised Version); Matthew 7:24, note. Therefore. Summing up the thought of vers. 24-31, that he who suffers with Christ is only receiving such treatment as he ought to expect, and is never forgotten. Shall confess me (ὁμολογήσει ἐν ἐμοί). Ὁμολογεῖν ἐν occurs only in this verse (twice) and in the parallel passage, Luke 12:8 (cf. Bishop Westcott, on 1 John 2:23). Though the exact phrase is doubtless due to Hebrew influence (cf. Ewald, § 217, f. 2), yet its choice here is determined by an instinctive feeling that it expresses the union of him who confesses with him who is confessed, while the plain accusative makes no such implication, but only sums up the confession. Bishop Westcott ('Canon,' p. 275, edit. 1870) quotes Heracleon's comment on Luke 12:8. "With good reason Christ says of those who confess him in me (ὁμολογήσει ἐν ἐμοί), but of those who deny him me (ἀρνήσηταί με) only. For these even it' they confess him with their voice deny him, since they confess him not in their action. But they alone make confession in him who live in the confession and action that accords with him; in whom also he makes confession, having himself embraced them, and being held first by them" (Clem. Alex., 'Strom.,' 4:9, Fragment 50 in Sir. A. E. Brooke's edition of Heraeleon). Before men (τῶν ἀνθρώπων); ver. 17, note, and Matthew 6:1, note. Him. Not in any position of emphasis in the Greek. Will I confess also (cf. Revelation 3:5) before my Father. Not merely "the Father," but him who is in the closest relationship to me; the thought is of salvation as well as of creation. Which is in heaven. In nature, love; in position, majesty and omnipotence.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Therefore
οὖν (oun)
Conjunction
Strong's 3767: Therefore, then. Apparently a primary word; certainly, or accordingly.

everyone
Πᾶς (Pas)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

who
ὅστις (hostis)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3748: Whosoever, whichsoever, whatsoever.

confesses
ὁμολογήσει (homologēsei)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3670: From a compound of the base of homou and logos; to assent, i.e. Covenant, acknowledge.

Me
ἐμοὶ (emoi)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

before
ἔμπροσθεν (emprosthen)
Preposition
Strong's 1715: From en and pros; in front of (literally or figuratively) or time).

men,
ἀνθρώπων (anthrōpōn)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.

I will also confess
ὁμολογήσω (homologēsō)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 3670: From a compound of the base of homou and logos; to assent, i.e. Covenant, acknowledge.

him
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

before
ἔμπροσθεν (emprosthen)
Preposition
Strong's 1715: From en and pros; in front of (literally or figuratively) or time).

My
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

Father
Πατρός (Patros)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

heaven.
οὐρανοῖς (ouranois)
Noun - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3772: Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel.


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