13 Bible Verses about Christ's True Family

"Who is my mother? and who are my brothers?" Then, stretching out his hands towards his disciples, he said: "Here are my mother and my brothers! For any one who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

"Who is my mother? and my brothers?" was his reply.

His reply, spoken to them all, was: "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's teaching and do what it bids."

For he who purifies, and those whom he purifies, all spring from One; and therefore he is not ashamed to call them 'Brothers.' He says-- 'I will tell of thy Name to my Brothers, In the midst of the congregation I will sing thy praise.'

For those whom God chose from the first he also destined from the first to be transformed into likeness to his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest among many Brothers.

And consequently it was necessary that he should in all points be made like 'his Brothers,' in order that he might prove a merciful as well as a faithful High Priest in man's relations with God, for the purpose of expiating the sins of his People.

And the King will reply 'I tell you, as often as you did it to one of these my Brothers, however lowly, you did it to me.'

And then he will reply 'I tell you, as often as you failed to do it to one of these, however lowly, you failed to do it to me.'

"Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to set out for Galilee, and they shall see me there."

"Who is my mother? and who are my brothers?"

Then, stretching out his hands towards his disciples, he said: "Here are my mother and my brothers!

Then he looked around on the people sitting in a circle round him, and said: "Here are my mother and my brothers!

Who will not receive a hundred times as much, even now in the present--houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land--though not without persecutions, and, in the age that is coming, Immortal Life.