Mark 3:35
For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”
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- Matt 7:21 : 21 Judgment of Pretenders“Not everyone who says to me,‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven– only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
- 1 John 2:17 : 17 And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.
- 1 John 3:22-23 : 22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him. 23 Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.
- John 7:17 : 17 If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.
- Jas 1:25 : 25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out– he will be blessed in what he does.
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46 Jesus’ True Family While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside, asking to speak to him.
47 Someone told him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to speak to you.”
48 To the one who had said this, Jesus replied,“Who is my mother and who are my brothers?”
49 And pointing toward his disciples he said,“Here are my mother and my brothers!
50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
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31 Jesus’ True Family Then Jesus’ mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.
32 A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”
33 He answered them and said,“Who are my mother and my brothers?”
34 And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said,“Here are my mother and my brothers!
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20 So he was told,“Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”
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35 For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
36 and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.
37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
- Luke 14:25-273 verses71%
25 Counting the Cost Now large crowds were accompanying Jesus, and turning to them he said,
26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
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55 Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother named Mary? And aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?
56 And aren’t all his sisters here with us? So where did he get all this?”
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26 So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother,“Woman, look, here is your son!”
27 He then said to his disciple,“Look, here is your mother!” From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.
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29 And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
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35 Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”
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21 And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.
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19 honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
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35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and because of the gospel will save it.
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53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
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21 The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”
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33 In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.
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