Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, letters of commendation to you or commendation from you?

For whoever does the will of My Father in Heaven, that one is My brother and sister and mother.

who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time; houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.

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

If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,

Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,

having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the Word of God which lives and abides forever,

and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others who ministered to Him out of their possessions.

Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man,

being well reported of for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

So Paul still remained a good while. Then he took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. He had his hair cut at Cenchrea, for he had a vow.