Luke 8:21 Cross References - MLV

²¹ But he answered and said to them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and are doing it.

²¹ Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who is practicing the will of my Father, the one in the heavens. ²² Many will be saying to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not: prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and practice many miracles in your name? ²³ And then I will confess to them, I never knew you. Depart from me, you who are working lawlessness.


²⁴ Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and practices them, he will be similar to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock; ²⁵ and the rain came down and the rivers came up and the winds blew and fell down upon that house, and it did not fall; for it had been founded upon the rock. ²⁶ And everyone hearing these words of mine and who is not doing them, will be similar to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand;

⁵ While he is still speaking, behold, a radiant cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am delighted; hear him!

⁴⁰ And when the King answers, he will say to them, Assuredly I am saying to you, Inasmuch as you did it to one of these, my brethren, even the least, you did it to me.

⁴⁵ Then he will answer them, saying, Assuredly I am saying to you, Inasmuch as you did it not to one of these, the least, neither did you do it to me.

¹⁰ Then Jesus says to them, Do not be afraid. Go; report to my brethren in order that they might go into Galilee and they will be seeing me there.

¹⁵ But that seed in the good soil, these are such as in a good and beautiful heart, having heard the word, hold-onto it and are bearing-fruit with endurance.

²⁷ Now it happened, while he said these things, a certain woman out of the crowd lifted up her voice and said to him, The womb bearing you, and the breasts which you nursed, are fortunate.
²⁸ But he said, But-rather, those who hear the word of God and are observing it, are fortunate.

²⁸ Therefore they said to him, What should we do, in order that we may work the works of God?
²⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, in order that you might believe in the one whom that one has sent.

¹⁷ If you know these things, you are fortunate if you practice them.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you practice as many things as I command you. ¹⁵ I call you bondservants no more, because the bondservant does not know what his lord is doing, but I have called you friends, because all the things which I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

¹⁷ Jesus says to her, Do not be touching me; for I have not yet ascended to my Father, but travel to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father and my God and your God.

¹⁶ So-then from hereafter we know no one according to the flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, but now we know him as such no more.

¹⁸ and will be a Father to you and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.’

¹¹ For both he who is making holy and those who are made holy are all from one. Because of which case, he is not ashamed to call them brethren, ¹² saying, ‘I will be proclaiming your name to my brethren, in the midst of the congregation I will be singing hymns to you.’ ¹³ And again, ‘I will have confidence in him.’And again, ‘Behold, here I am and the children whom God has given me.’

²² But become doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who is practicing righteousness has been born from him.

²² and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we are keeping his commandments and are practicing the things which are pleasing in his sight. ²³ And this is his commandment, in order that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and should love one another, just-as he gave commandment to us.

¹¹ Beloved, do not imitate the evil one, but the good one. He who practices good is from God. He who practices evil has not seen God.