Because of this I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, Jesus is a curse. And no one is able to say Jesus is Lord, if not by the Holy Spirit.
The one overcoming, this one shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the Book of Life, not ever! And I will acknowledge his name before My Father, and before His angels.
His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Him as Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.
and the nations on behalf of mercy to glorify God, even as it is written, “Because of this I will confess to You among the nations, and I will sing praise to Your name.” Psa. 18:49
Yet, however, even out of the rulers, many did believe into Him. But because of the Pharisees, they were not confessing, so that they not be put out of the synagogue.
Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My Word, and My Father shall love him. And We will come to him and will make an abode with him.