Luke 12:9
but the person who publicly disowns me will be altogether disowned before God’s angels.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 7:23And then I will say to them plainly ‘I never knew you. Go from my presence, you who live in sin.’
Matthew 25:12But the groom answered ‘I tell you, I do not know you.’
Matthew 25:41Then he will say to those on his left ‘Go from my presence, accursed, into the permanent fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.
Luke 9:26Whoever is ashamed of me and of my teaching, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them, when he comes in his glory and the glory of the father and of the holy angels.
Luke 22:57But Peter denied it. “I do not know him,” he replied.
2 Timothy 2:12If we continue to endure, we will also share his throne. If we should ever disown him, he, too, will disown us.
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 →