13 Bible Verses about Christ's True Family
Most Relevant Verses
And he answering said to him who spake to him, 'Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?' And having stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, he said, 'Lo, my mother and my brethren! for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'
and he answering said unto them, 'My mother and my brethren! they are those who the word of God are hearing, and doing.'
for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, 'I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, 'I will be trusting on Him;'
because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;
wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,
And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brethren -- the least -- to me ye did it.
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these, the least, ye did it not to me.
Then saith Jesus to them, 'Fear ye not, go away, tell to my brethren that they may go away to Galilee, and there they shall see me.'
And he answering said to him who spake to him, 'Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?'
And having stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, he said, 'Lo, my mother and my brethren!
And having looked round in a circle to those sitting about him, he saith, 'Lo, my mother and my brethren!
who may not receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields, with persecutions, and in the age that is coming, life age-during;