Matthew 10:38-40

J.B. Phillips New Testament

^37-39 “Anyone who puts his love for father or mother above his love for me does not deserve to be mine, and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me, and neither is the man who refuses to take up his cross and follow my way. The man who has found his own life will lose it, but the man who has lost it for my sake will find it.

⁴⁰ “Whoever welcomes you, welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me is welcoming the one who sent me.