Matthew 10:32 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 10:32

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Tertullian

On Flight in Persecution (220)

If to flee, how to suffer? If to suffer, how to flee? In fact, what utter inconsistency in the decrees of One who commands to flee, and yet urges to suffer, which is the very opposite! "Him who will confess Me, I also will confess before My Father." How will he confess, fleeing? How flee, confessing? "Of him who shall be ashamed of Me, will I also be ashamed before My Father.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Whosoever shall confess me - Publicly acknowledge me for the promised Messiah. But this confession implies the receiving his whole doctrine, Mark viii, 38, and obeying all his commandments.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men - That is, whosoever shall acknowledge me to be the Messiah, and have his heart and life regulated by my spirit and doctrine. It is not merely sufficient to have the heart right before God; there must be a firm, manly, and public profession of Christ before men. “I am no hypocrite,” says one; neither should you be. “I will keep my religion to myself” i.e. you will not confess Christ before men; then he will renounce you before God.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Πᾶς	Pas	Everyone	G3956 →
οὖν	oun	therefore	G3767 →
ὅστις	hostis	who	G3748 →
ὁμολογήσει	homologēsei	will confess	G3670 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ἐμοὶ	emoi	Me myself	G1473 →
ἔμπροσθεν	emprosthen	before	G1715 →
τῶν	tōn	<the>	G3588 →
ἀνθρώπων,	anthrōpōn	men,	G444 →
ὁμολογήσω	homologēsō	will confess	G3670 →
κἀγὼ	kagō	also I myself	G1473 →G2532 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
αὐτῷ	autō	him	G846 →
ἔμπροσθεν	emprosthen	before	G1715 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
πατρός	patros	Father	G3962 →
μου	mou	of Mine	G3165 →
τοῦ	tou	who [is]	G3588 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τοῖς	tois	the	G3588 →
οὐρανοῖς.	ouranois	heavens.	G3772 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 John 4:15
If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
leads to
- 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.
- 1 John 5:5
  Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
- 1 John 3:24
  Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
- 1 John 4:2
  By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
Through
2 Timothy 1:8
So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
leads to
- Romans 1:16
  I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
- Mark 8:38
  If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the…
Through
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…
leads to
- Revelation 21:27
  But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
- 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.