Matthew 12:50

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Cross References

Psalm 22:22

I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:

Song of Solomon 4:12

A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.

Matthew 12:49

And pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

Matthew 13:1

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.

Matthew 17:5

While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!”

Matthew 25:40

And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.’

Matthew 25:45

Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’

Matthew 28:10

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

Mark 3:35

Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

Luke 8:21

But he said to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”

John 15:14

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

John 20:17

Jesus said to her, “Do not touch me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

John 6:29

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

John 6:40

This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.”

Acts 17:30

While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Acts 26:20

but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout the countryside of Judea, and also to the gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do deeds consistent with repentance.

Romans 8:29

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.

1 Corinthians 9:5

Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

2 Corinthians 11:2

I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love.

Galatians 6:15

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything, but a new creation is everything!

Colossians 3:11

In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, enslaved and free, but Christ is all and in all!

1 Timothy 5:2

to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters—with absolute purity.

Hebrews 5:9

and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

1 Peter 4:2

so as to live for the rest of your time in the flesh no longer by human desires but by the will of God.

1 John 2:17

And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God abide forever.

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.