Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to do, we are all purified from sin by the offering that he made of his own body once and for all.

With one sacrifice, then, he has made perfect forever those who are purified from sin.

For this reason Jesus also died outside the city, in order to purify the people from sin with his own blood.

And for their sake I dedicate myself to you, in order that they, too, may be truly dedicated to you.

Since the children, as he calls them, are people of flesh and blood, Jesus himself became like them and shared their human nature. He did this so that through his death he might destroy the Devil, who has the power over death,

I pray that they may all be one. Father! May they be in us, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they be one, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

From one human being he created all races of people and made them live throughout the whole earth. He himself fixed beforehand the exact times and the limits of the places where they would live.

But when the right time finally came, God sent his own Son. He came as the son of a human mother and lived under the Jewish Law,

Instead, it was a better country they longed for, the heavenly country. And so God is not ashamed for them to call him their God, because he has prepared a city for them.

If you are ashamed of me and of my teaching in this godless and wicked day, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of you when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

If you are ashamed of me and of my teaching, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of you when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

Jesus answered, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"

Whoever does what my Father in heaven wants is my brother, my sister, and my mother."

The King will reply, 'I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine, you did it for me!'

"Do not be afraid," Jesus said to them. "Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me."

"Do not hold on to me," Jesus told her, "because I have not yet gone back up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am returning to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God."

Those whom God had already chosen he also set apart to become like his Son, so that the Son would be the first among many believers.