Romans 16:13
Greet Rufus, the chosen one in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
Mark 15:21
And they forced a certain man who was passing by, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), who was coming from the country, to carry his cross.
Matthew 12:49-50
And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, "Behold my mother and my brothers!
Matthew 20:16
Thus the last will be first and the first last."
Mark 3:35
For whoever does the will of God, this person is my brother and sister and mother."
John 15:16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
John 19:27
Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her into his own [home].
Ephesians 1:4
just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, [that] we should be holy and blameless before him in love,
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers [dearly] loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you [as] first fruits for salvation by the sanctification of the Spirit and faith in the truth,
1 Timothy 5:2
older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.
2 John 1:1
The elder, to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth--and not I alone, but also all those who know the truth--