Therefore from their fruits you will 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 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, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which You sucked!

But He said, No; rather, 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 into Him whom He sent.

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

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

For Moses truly said to the fathers, The Lord your God will raise up to you a Prophet like me from among your brethren. You shall hear Him in all things, whatever He says to you.

And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.

And he brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

So they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.

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

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any power, but a new creation.

where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all things and in all.

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

Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted Word, which has the power to save your souls.

But be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh in the lusts of men, but in 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 on the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment.

Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the Tree of Life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

And the King will answer and say to them, Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.

Then He will answer them, saying, Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.

And Jesus said to them, Do not be afraid. Go and tell My brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see Me.

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

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

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

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

And again: I will put My trust in Him. And again: Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.

and set free those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in the things pertaining to God, in order to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one look of your eyes, with the pendant around your neck.

How beautiful is your love, My sister, my spouse! How much better than wine is your love, and the scent of your ointments than all spices!

A bolted enclosed garden is my sister, my spouse; a spring locked up, a fountain sealed.

The Beloved: I have come to my garden, my sister, my spouse; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. To His Friends: Eat, O friends! Drink, yes, get drunk, O beloved ones!

Shulamite: I sleep, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my beloved! He knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one; for my head is covered with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.

Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, 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 chaste virgin to Christ.

Husbands, love your 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 without blemish.

When Jesus therefore saw 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 home.

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