Matthew 12:50

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Yes, anyone who does what my Father in heaven wants is my true brother and sister and mother.”

Cross References

Luke 8:21

Jesus answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God’s teaching and obey it.”

Mark 3:35

My true brother and sister and mother are those who do what God wants.”

John 15:14

You are my friends if you do what I tell you to do.

John 6:29

Jesus answered, “The work God wants you to do is this: to believe in the one he sent.”

Matthew 28:10

Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my followers to go to Galilee. They will see me there.”

Romans 8:29

God knew them before he made the world. And he decided that they would be like his Son. Then Jesus would be the firstborn of many brothers and sisters.

John 6:40

Everyone who sees the Son and believes in him has eternal life. I will raise them up on the last day. This is what my Father wants.”

1 John 2:17

The world is passing away, and all the things that people want in the world are passing away. But whoever does what God wants will live forever.

Matthew 25:40

“Then the king will answer, ‘The truth is, anything you did for any of my people here, you also did for me.’

1 Timothy 5:2

Treat the older women like mothers. And treat the younger women with respect like sisters.

1 Peter 4:2

Strengthen yourselves so that you will live your lives here on earth doing what God wants, not the evil things that people want to do.

Galatians 6:15

It doesn’t matter if anyone is circumcised or not. The only thing that matters is this new life we have from God.

John 20:17

Jesus said to her, “You don’t need to hold on to me! I have not yet gone back up to the Father. But go to my followers and tell them this: ‘I am going back to my Father and your Father. I am going back to my God and your God.’”

Revelation 22:14

“Great blessings belong to those who have washed their robes. They will have the right to eat the food from the tree of life. They can go through the gates into the city.

Colossians 3:11

In this new life it doesn’t matter if you are a Greek or a Jew, circumcised or not. It doesn’t matter if you speak a different language or even if you are a Scythian. It doesn’t matter if you are a slave or free. Christ is all that matters, and he is in all of you.

Galatians 5:6

When someone belongs to Christ Jesus, it is not important if they are circumcised or not. The important thing is faith—the kind of faith that works through love.

Acts 17:30

In the past people did not understand God, and he overlooked this. But now he is telling everyone in the world to change and turn to him.

Matthew 17:5

While Peter was talking, a bright cloud came over them. A voice came from the cloud and said, “This is my Son, the one I love. I am very pleased with him. Obey him!”

Psalm 22:22

I will tell my people about you. I will praise you in the great assembly.

Hebrews 5:9

This made him the perfect high priest, who provides the way for everyone who obeys him to be saved forever.

2 Corinthians 11:2

I am jealous for you with a jealousy that comes from God. I promised to give you to Christ. He must be your only husband. I want to give you to Christ to be his pure bride.

Acts 26:20

I began telling people to change their hearts and lives and turn back to God. And I told them to do what would show that they had really changed. I went first to people in Damascus. Then I went to Jerusalem and to every part of Judea and told the people there. I also went to the non-Jewish people.

Matthew 25:45

“The king will answer, ‘The truth is, anything you refused to do for any of my people here, you refused to do for me.’

1 Corinthians 9:5

We have the right to bring a believing wife with us when we travel, don’t we? The other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Peter all do this.

Song of Solomon 4:12

My darling, my bride, you are pure like a locked garden. You are like a locked pool, a closed fountain.

Matthew 12:49

Then he pointed to his followers and said, “See! These people are my mother and my brothers.

Matthew 13:1

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake.