Matthew 12:50

The Passion Translation

When you obey my heavenly Father, that makes you a part of my true family.”

Cross References

Psalm 22:22

I will declare your name before all my brothers and praise you in the midst of the congregation.

Song of Solomon 4:12

My darling bride, my private paradise, fastened to my heart. A secret spring that no one else can have are you— my bubbling fountain hidden from public view. What a perfect partner to me now that I have you.

Matthew 12:49

Then gesturing to the disciples gathered around him, he said, “Look closely, for this is my true family.

Matthew 13:1

Later that day, Jesus left the house and sat by the lakeshore to teach the people.

Matthew 17:5

But while Peter was still speaking, a bright radiant cloud spread over them, enveloping them all. And God’s voice suddenly spoke from the cloud, saying, “This is my dearly loved Son, the constant focus of my delight. Listen to him!”

Matthew 25:40

“And the King will answer them, ‘Don’t you know? When you cared for one of the least of these, my little ones, my true brothers and sisters, you demonstrated love for me.’

Matthew 25:45

“Then he will answer them, ‘Don’t you know? When you refused to help one of the least important among these my little ones, my true brothers and sisters, you refused to help and honor me.’

Matthew 28:10

Then Jesus said to them, “Throw off all your fears. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee. They will find me there.”

Mark 3:35

For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and my mother!”

Luke 8:21

Jesus told the crowd, “These who come to listen to me are like my mother and my brothers. They’re the ones who long to hear God’s words and put them into practice.”

John 15:14

“You show that you are my intimate friends when you obey all that I command you.

John 20:17

Jesus cautioned her, “Mary, don’t cling to me, for I haven’t yet ascended to God, my Father. And he’s not only my Father and God, but now he’s your Father and your God! Now go to my brothers and tell them what I’ve told you, that I am ascending to my Father—and your Father, to my God—and your God!”

John 6:29

Jesus answered, “The work you can do for God starts with believing in the One he has sent.”

John 6:40

For the longing of my Father is that everyone who embraces the Son and believes in him will experience eternal life and I will raise them up in the last day!”

Acts 17:30

“In the past God tolerated our ignorance of these things, but now the time of deception has passed away. He commands us all to repent and turn to God.

Acts 26:20

For it was in Damascus that I first declared the truth. And then I went to Jerusalem and throughout our nation, and even to other nations, telling people everywhere that they must repent and turn to God and demonstrate it with a changed life.

Romans 8:29

For he knew all about us before we were born and he destined us from the beginning to share the likeness of his Son. This means the Son is the oldest among a vast family of brothers and sisters who will become just like him.

1 Corinthians 9:5

Don’t we have the right to travel accompanied by our believing wives and be supported as a couple, as do the other apostles, such as Peter the Rock and the Lord’s brothers?

2 Corinthians 11:2

You need to know that God’s passion is burning inside me for you, because, like a loving father, I have pledged your hand in marriage to Christ, your true bridegroom. I’ve also promised that I would present his fiancée to him as a pure virgin bride.

Galatians 5:6

When you’re joined to the Anointed One, circumcision and religious obligations can benefit you nothing. All that matters now is living in the faith that works and expresses itself through love.

Galatians 6:15

Whether a man is circumcised or uncircumcised is meaningless to me. What really matters is the transforming power of this new creation life.

Colossians 3:11

In this new creation life, your nationality makes no difference, nor your ethnicity, education, nor economic status—they matter nothing. For it is Christ that means everything as he lives in every one of us!

1 Timothy 5:2

Honor the older women as mothers, and the younger women, treat as your dear sisters with utmost purity.

Hebrews 5:9

And after being proven perfect in this way he has now become the source of eternal salvation to all those who listen to him and obey.

1 Peter 4:2

So live the rest of your earthly life no longer concerned with human desires but consumed with what brings pleasure to God.

1 John 2:17

This world and its desires are in the process of passing away, but those who love to do the will of God live forever.

Revelation 22:14

Wonderfully blessed are those who wash their robes white so they can access the Tree of Life and enter the city of bliss by its open gates.