If you are ashamed of me and of my teaching, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of you when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

But those who reject me publicly, I will reject before my Father in heaven.

If you are ashamed of me and of my teaching in this godless and wicked day, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of you when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has given divine glory to his Servant Jesus. But you handed him over to the authorities, and you rejected him in Pilate's presence, even after Pilate had decided to set him free.

He was holy and good, but you rejected him, and instead you asked Pilate to do you the favor of turning loose a murderer.

If we continue to endure, we shall also rule with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

I know what you do; I know that you have a little power; you have followed my teaching and have been faithful to me. I have opened a door in front of you, which no one can close.

Then you will answer, 'We ate and drank with you; you taught in our town!'

But he will say again, 'I don't know where you come from. Get away from me, all you wicked people!'

Then I will say to them, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you wicked people!'

'Certainly not! I don't know you,' the bridegroom answered."

"When the Son of Man comes as King and all the angels with him, he will sit on his royal throne,

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Away from me, you that are under God's curse! Away to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels!

For those who reject the Son reject also the Father; those who accept the Son have the Father also.

Yes, my children, remain in union with him, so that when he appears we may be full of courage and need not hide in shame from him on the Day he comes.