11 And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, (A)do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say (B)whatever is given you in that hour, (C)for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. 12 (D)And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death. 13 (E)And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. (F)But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

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12 But before all this (A)they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to (B)the synagogues and (C)prisons, and you (D)will be brought before (E)kings and (F)governors for my name's sake. 13 (G)This will be your opportunity to bear witness. 14 Settle it therefore in your minds (H)not to meditate beforehand how to answer, 15 for (I)I will give you a mouth and (J)wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or (K)contradict. 16 You will be delivered up (L)even by parents and brothers[a] and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death. 17 (M)You will be hated by all for my name's sake. 18 But (N)not a hair of your head will perish. 19 By your (O)endurance you will gain your lives.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 21:16 Or parents and brothers and sisters

16 At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. (A)May it not be charged against them! 17 But (B)the Lord stood by me and (C)strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and (D)all the Gentiles might hear it. So (E)I was rescued (F)from the lion's mouth.

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