Matthew 12:50

Good News Translation

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

Cross References

Psalm 22:22

I will tell my people what you have done; I will praise you in their assembly:

Song of Solomon 4:12

My sweetheart, my bride, is a secret garden, a walled garden, a private spring;

Matthew 12:49

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

Matthew 13:1

That same day Jesus left the house and went to the lakeside, where he sat down to teach.

Matthew 17:5

While he was talking, a shining cloud came over them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my own dear Son, with whom I am pleased—listen to him!”

Matthew 25:40

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!’

Matthew 25:45

The King will reply, ‘I tell you, whenever you refused to help one of these least important ones, you refused to help me.’

Matthew 28:10

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

Mark 3:35

Whoever does what God wants is my brother, my sister, my mother.”

Luke 8:21

Jesus said to them all, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

John 15:14

And you are my friends if you do what I command you.

John 20:17

“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.”

John 6:29

Jesus answered, “What God wants you to do is to believe in the one he sent.”

John 6:40

For what my Father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should have eternal life. And I will raise them to life on the last day.”

Acts 17:30

God has overlooked the times when people did not know him, but now he commands all of them everywhere to turn away from their evil ways.

Acts 26:20

First in Damascus and in Jerusalem and then in the whole country of Israel and among the Gentiles, I preached that they must repent of their sins and turn to God and do the things that would show they had repented.

Romans 8:29

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.

1 Corinthians 9:5

Don't I have the right to follow the example of the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter, by taking a Christian wife with me on my trips?

2 Corinthians 11:2

I am jealous for you, just as God is; you are like a pure virgin whom I have promised in marriage to one man only, Christ himself.

Galatians 5:6

For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.

Galatians 6:15

It does not matter at all whether or not one is circumcised; what does matter is being a new creature.

Colossians 3:11

As a result, there is no longer any distinction between Gentiles and Jews, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarians, savages, slaves, and free, but Christ is all, Christ is in all.

1 Timothy 5:2

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

Hebrews 5:9

When he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey him,

1 Peter 4:2

From now on, then, you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires.

1 John 2:17

The world and everything in it that people desire is passing away; but those who do the will of God live forever.

Revelation 22:14

Happy are those who wash their robes clean and so have the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life and to go through the gates into the city.