Confessing Christ
Matthew 10:32
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.
- KJV
- Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
- WEB
- Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.
- ASV
- Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven.
- LSV
- Everyone, therefore, who will confess in Me before men, I also will confess in him before My Father who is in the heavens;
- YLT
- 'Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens;
- DBY
- Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, I also will confess him before my Father who is in [the] heavens.
- DRC
- Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.
- GNV
- Whosoeuer therefore shall confesse me before men, him will I confesse also before my Father which is in heauen.
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Westcott–Hort, Tregelles include τοῖς (“the”); Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Textus Receptus, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
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- SBLGNT: ἐν. the Greek text behind the NIV, Robinson–Pierpont read ἐν; Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition add τοῖς.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- Πᾶς οὖν ὅστις ὁμολογήσει ἐν ἐμοὶ ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὁμολογήσω κἀγὼ ἐν αὐτῷ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς·
- RP2018
- Πᾶς οὖν ὅστις ὁμολογήσει ἐν ἐμοὶ ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὁμολογήσω κἀγὼ ἐν αὐτῷ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς.
- TR-Boyd
- Πᾶς οὖν ὅστις ὁμολογήσει ἐν ἐμοὶ ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὁμολογήσω κἀγὼ ἐν αὐτῷ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς.
- SCR1894
- πας ουν οστις ομολογησει εν εμοι εμπροσθεν των ανθρωπων ομολογησω καγω εν αυτω εμπροσθεν του πατρος μου του εν ουρανοις
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Cross-references most cited first
- Revelation 3:5Like 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.
- Luke 12:8–9I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God. But whoever denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
- Romans 10:9–10that 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. For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess…
- 1 John 4:15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
- 2 Timothy 1:8So 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.
- Revelation 2:13I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits. Yet you have held fast to My name and have not denied your faith in Me, even in the day when My faithful witness Antipas was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
- 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…
- Matthew 25:34Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
- 1 Timothy 6:12–13Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses. I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and…
- John 9:22His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
- Psalms 119:46I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed.
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