10:32 “Whoever, then, acknowledges 2 me before people, I will acknowledge 3 before my Father in heaven. 10:33 But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.
1 tn Grk “for (to do) thus was well-pleasing before you,” BDAG 325 s.v. ἔμπροσθεν 1.b.δ; speaking of something taking place “before” God is a reverential way of avoiding direct connection of the action to him.
2 tn Or “confesses.”
3 tn Grk “I will acknowledge him also.”
3 tn Grk “he denied it…saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.