Luke 12:8,9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Also I say unto you It will be necessary, however, in order that you may keep your minds unshaken, that you should often look forward unto the final judgment, at which I will own you as my servants, if, by your constant and cheerful obedience to my commands, you now acknowledge me as your Master. For whosoever shall confess me before men Shall freely and openly acknowledge himself to be my disciple, and shall conduct himself as such, to whatever dangers and persecutions he may thereby expose himself; him shall the Son of man also confess Shall declare to belong to him; before the angels of God When they come to attend on his final triumph. But he that To avoid reproach and suffering; denieth me before men And is ashamed or afraid of maintaining so good a cause; shall be denied and disowned by me before the angels of God When they appear in radiant forms around me, and wait in solemn silence the important event of that awful day. Nothing can be more majestic than the view which Christ here gives of himself, and of the issue of the final judgment. To be renounced by him is spoken of as a circumstance which will expose a man to the contempt of the whole angelic world, and leave him no remaining shelter or hope.