My sister, my bride, you are a locked garden – a locked garden and a sealed spring.
Matthew 12:50 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother! American Standard Version (1901) For whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother. Common English Bible Whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven is my brother, sister, and mother.” Catholic Public Domain Version For anyone who does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother. |
My sister, my bride, you are a locked garden – a locked garden and a sealed spring.
Stretching out his hand towards his disciples, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers!
While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, ‘This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased. Listen to him! ’
‘And the King will answer them, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
‘Then he will answer them, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”
Then Jesus told them, ‘Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to leave for Galilee, and they will see me there.’
But he replied to them, ‘My mother and my brothers are those who hear and do the word of God.’
‘Don’t cling to me,’ Jesus told her, ‘since I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’
Jesus replied, ‘This is the work of God #– #that you believe in the one he has sent.’
For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him will have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.’
‘Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent,
Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.
For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
Don’t we have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife like the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?
For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband #– #to present a pure virgin to Christ.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.
For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.
In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.
older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters with all purity.
After he was perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.
And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does the will of God remains for ever.
‘Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.