Luke 9:26

For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in his own glory, and the glory of the Father, and his holy angels.

Characteristic of the Gospels, these verses (Luke 9:23-27) are independent sayings of Jesus, gathered here into a single paragraph, as in Mark 8:34-9:1. See under those references in my Commentary on Mark. The warning in this verse is against being ashamed of Jesus and his words, there being no essential difference. One who is ashamed of Jesus' words is also ashamed of Jesus. Behold the pride and vanity of life, that mortal man, encompassed with weakness and infirmity, born to trouble as sparks fly upward, destined to strut and fret his brief hour upon life's stage, and then to descend into the rottenness of a grave - that such a creature should be ashamed of the Lord who died to redeem him from the curse of sin! No wonder his Creator will be ashamed of such a creature in the Great Day.

And, of course, this verse has overtones of the final judgment; but not so with the next one.