older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters – with complete purity.p>

(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)<n id="1" />p>

If a brother or sister<n id="1" /> is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,

<p class="bodytext">The children of your elect sister greet you.<n id="1" />p>

And aren&#8217;t all his sisters here with us? Where did he get all this?&#8221;<n id="1" />

For whoever does the will of God is<n id="1" /> my brother and sister and mother.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.<n id="1" />

So the sisters sent a message<n id="1" /> to Jesus,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Lord, look, the one you love is sick.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant<n id="1" /> of the church in Cenchrea,

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the believers<n id="1" /> who are with them.

to Apphia<n id="1" /> our sister,<n id="2" /> to Archippus our<n id="3" /> fellow soldier, and to the church that meets in your house.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is<n id="1" /> my brother and sister and mother.&#8221;p>

She<n id="1" /> had a sister named Mary, who sat<n id="2" /> at the Lord&#8217;s feet<n id="3" /> and listened to what he said.

<p class="bodytext">And when she had said this, Martha<n id="1" /> went and called her sister Mary, saying privately,<n id="2" /> &#8220;The Teacher is here and is asking for you.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Jesus said, &#8220;Take away the stone.&#8221;<n id="1" /> Martha, the sister of the deceased,<n id="2" /> replied, &#8220;Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell,<n id="3" /> because he has been buried<n id="4" /> four days.&#8221;<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">But when the son of Paul&#8217;s sister heard about the ambush,<n id="1" /> he came and entered<n id="2" /> the barracks<n id="3" /> and told Paul.

Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, like the other apostles and the Lord&#8217;s brothers and Cephas?

And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much<n id="1" /> and will inherit eternal life.

Isn&#8217;t this the carpenter, the son<n id="1" /> of Mary<n id="2" /> and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren&#8217;t his sisters here with us?&#8221; And so they took offense at him.

Jesus said, &#8220;I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel