Matthew 12:50

Contemporary English Version 1995

Anyone who obeys my Father in heaven is my brother or sister or mother.”

Cross References

Luke 8:21

Jesus answered, “My mother and my brothers are those people who hear and obey God's message.”

Mark 3:35

Anyone who obeys God is my brother or sister or mother.”

John 15:14

And you are my friends, if you obey me.

John 6:29

Jesus answered, “God wants you to have faith in the one he sent.”

Matthew 28:10

Then Jesus said, “Don't be afraid! Tell my followers to go to Galilee. They will see me there.”

Romans 8:29

and he has always known who his chosen ones would be. He had decided to let them become like his own Son, so his Son would be the first of many children.

John 6:40

My Father wants everyone who sees the Son to have faith in him and to have eternal life. Then I will raise them to life on the last day.

1 John 2:17

The world and the desires it causes are disappearing. But if we obey God, we will live forever.

Matthew 25:40

The king will answer, “Whenever you did it for any of my people, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you did it for me.”

1 Timothy 5:2

and treat older women as you would your own mother. Show the same respect to younger women that you would to your sister.

1 Peter 4:2

It means you have turned from your own desires and want to obey God for the rest of your life.

Galatians 6:15

It doesn't matter if you are circumcised or not. All that matters is that you are a new person.

John 20:17

Jesus told her, “Don't hold on to me! I have not yet gone to the Father. But tell my disciples I am going to the one who is my Father and my God, as well as your Father and your God.”

Revelation 22:14

God will bless all who have washed their robes. They will each have the right to eat fruit from the tree that gives life, and they can enter the gates of the city.

Colossians 3:11

It doesn't matter if you are a Greek or a Jew, or if you are circumcised or not. You may even be a barbarian or a Scythian, and you may be a slave or a free person. Yet Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.

Galatians 5:6

If you are a follower of Christ Jesus, it makes no difference whether you are circumcised or not. All that matters is your faith that makes you love others.

Acts 17:30

In the past, God forgave all this because people did not know what they were doing. But now he says that everyone everywhere must turn to him.

Matthew 17:5

While Peter was still speaking, the shadow of a bright cloud passed over them. From the cloud a voice said, “This is my own dear Son, and I am pleased with him. Listen to what he says!”

Psalm 22:22

and when your people meet, I will praise you, Lord.

Hebrews 5:9

Suffering made Jesus perfect, and now he can save forever all who obey him.

2 Corinthians 11:2

I am as concerned about you as God is. You were like a virgin bride I had chosen only for Christ.

Acts 26:20

First I preached to the people in Damascus, and then I went to Jerusalem and all over Judea. Finally, I went to the Gentiles and said, “Stop sinning and turn to God! Then prove what you have done by the way you live.”

Matthew 25:45

The king will say to them, “Whenever you failed to help any of my people, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you failed to do it for me.”

1 Corinthians 9:5

We each have the right to marry one of the Lord's followers and to take her along with us, just as the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter do.

Song of Solomon 4:12

My bride, my very own, you are a garden, a fountain closed off to all others.

Matthew 12:49

Then he pointed to his disciples and said, “These are my mother and my brothers!

Matthew 13:1

That same day Jesus left the house and went out beside Lake Galilee, where he sat down to teach.