New Revised Standard Version
“Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven;

Contemporary English Version
If you tell others you belong to me, I will tell my Father in heaven you are my followers.

New American Bible
Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

confess me.

Psalm 119:46 And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: and I was not ashamed.

Luke 12:8,9 And I say to you: Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God. . . .

John 9:22 These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

Romans 10:9,10 For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved. . . .

1 Timothy 6:12,13 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called and be it confessed a good confession before many witnesses. . . .

2 Timothy 1:8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but labour with the gospel, according to the power of God.

1 John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

Revelation 2:13 I know where thou dwellest, where the seat of Satan is. And thou holdest fast my name and hast not denied my faith. Even in those days when Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

him.

Matthew 25:34 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

1 Samuel 2:30 Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be despised.

Revelation 3:5 He that shall overcome shall thus be clothed in white garments: and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. And I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.