Consequently, by their fruits you shall know them.

"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold, a voice [came] out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"

For whoever does the will of God is My brother and My sister and mother."

But He answered and said to them, "My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it."

And it happened, while He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised [her] voice and said to Him, "Blessed is the womb which bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!"

But He said, "More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."

And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

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

For Moses said to the fathers, 'The LORD our God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you.

'And it shall be that every person who does not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

and he brought them forth outside and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

And they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, you and your household."

So then these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

but to those first in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, proclaiming that they must repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but a new creation.

where there is not Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.

And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,

Therefore laying aside all filthiness and abundance of evil, in meekness receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

But become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

that he no longer should live the remaining time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

And the world is passing away, and its lust; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and should love one another, just as He gave commandment.

And the [one] who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, from the Spirit whom He gave us.

Blessed are those who do His commandments, so that their right shall be to the tree of life, and they may enter by the gates into the city.

"And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.'

"Then He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, neither did you do it to Me.'

Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go, report to My brothers that they should go to Galilee, and there they will see Me."

I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the church will I sing praise to You.

Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.'"

Because whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

And again: "I will put My trust in Him." And again: "Behold I and the children to whom God has given Me."

and that He might set free these, as many as by fear of death through all of their lives, were subject to bondage.

Therefore He was obligated to become like His brothers in all [respects], in order that He might become a merciful and faithful High Priest in things [pertaining] to God, in order that He might make propitiation for the sins of the people.

My sister, my spouse, you have ravished my heart; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

How beautiful are your breasts, my sister, my spouse! How much more beautiful are your breasts than wine, and the smell of your garments than all spices!

My sister, my spouse is a garden enclosed; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.

Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yes, brethren, drink abundantly.

I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, [saying], Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

Do we have no right to take along a wife [who is] a sister, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy, for I have betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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

that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and blameless.

Therefore Jesus, seeing His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold your son!"

Then He said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!" And from that hour that disciple took her into his own [care].

older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.