JESUS CALLS US FRIENDS, BROTHERS AND SISTERS
“For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.” – Matthew 12:50
“You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.” – John 15:14
“And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” – John 17:26
For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. – Romans 8:29
For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren. – Hebrews 2:11
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! . . . Beloved, now we are children of God. – 1 John 3:1-2
All Scripture NKJV, New King James Version
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 