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.
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In Context
9But whoever denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:30Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
Matthew 10:32Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.
Luke 15:10In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
2 Timothy 2:12if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;
Jude 1:24Now to Him who is able to keep them from stumbling and to present them unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
Revelation 2:13I know your works and where you live, where the throne of Satan sits. Yet you hold to My name and did not deny your faith in Me in the days of My faithful witness Antipas, who was killed among you where Satan dwells.
Matthew Henry on Luke 12:2-13
Christ's Charge to His Apostles. 1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. 3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be… Read the whole commentary →