While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said:

This is My beloved Son.
I take delight in Him.
Listen to Him!

Whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”

But He replied to them, “My mother and My brothers are those who hear and do the word of God.”

As He was saying these things, a woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “The womb that bore You and the one who nursed You are blessed!”

Jesus replied, “This is the work of God—that you believe in the One He has sent.”

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Moses said:

The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He will say to you.

Then he escorted them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

“Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent,

Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.

For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.

In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.

After He was perfected, He became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him,

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God’s will remains forever.

Now this is His command: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as He commanded us.

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.

The same

“And the King will answer them, ‘I assure you: Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’

Then Jesus told them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell My brothers to leave for Galilee, and they will see Me there.”

I will proclaim Your name to my brothers;
I will praise You in the congregation.

“Don’t cling to Me,” Jesus told her, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God.”

For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

For the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers,

And sister

You have captured my heart, my sister,

my bride.

You have captured my heart with one glance of your eyes,
with one jewel of your necklace.

M I have come to my garden—my sister, my bride.
I gather my myrrh with my spices.
I eat my honeycomb with my honey.
I drink my wine with my milk.

N Eat, friends!
Drink, be intoxicated with love!

Don’t we have the right to be accompanied by a Christian wife like the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband—to present a pure virgin to Christ.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her

And mother

When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple He loved standing there, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

older women as mothers, and with all propriety, the younger women as sisters.

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Then His mother and brothers came to Him, but they could not meet with Him because of the crowd.

He said, “Even more, those who hear the word of God and keep it are blessed!”