MATTHEW 10 27-42

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27 - What I tell you in the dark (in quietness, in solitude), say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. 28 And don’t fear those who can kill the body but cannot kill the soul” [psyxḗ - from psyxō - to breathe, blow, which is the root of the English words psyche, psychology – soul (psyche) a person's distinct identity, unique personhood, i.e. individual personality] ["the soul that sins shall die" Ezekiel 18:20]. “Rather fear he who cAn destroy both soul and body in [en - in, on, at, with, among, by] gehenna. {This slow gehenna fade to total fade out, ten four, over and out.. Natural law, God is Life and “is Perfect” Mt.5:48, so imperfect is both entropy and an abyss of potential. But no option to stray in Eden and we’d be an ant farm, so the dis-ease is being let to run its course, and was engineered so “all of heaven (angels) and all of earth” suffer through it all together at once (Eph.1:10). And God, being Life, suffers it all.}

     29 “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father. 30 Even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Fear noT, therefore, you, are of more value than many sparrows.

     32 Everyone who acknowledges me before men, I will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven. {Does not say ‘forever’. Never does, but is “aionion”/eonian.} 34 Don’t think that I’ve come to bring peace to the earth. I’ve not come to bring peace, but a sWord. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 A person's enemies will be those of his own household.

     37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And whoever doesn’t take their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds their life {hangs on to their own ways before his} will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, will find it. {God surely(?) has our highest blueprint.} 40 Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives he who sent me. 41 Whoever receives a prophet because they are a prophet will receive a prophet's reward. And whoever receives a righteous person because they are a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward. 42 And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because they are my disciple [mathétés - disciple, learner, pupil] truly, I tell you, they shall noT, by any means, lose their reward.”

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