But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” Mat 12:48-50
“God offers himself to be our God. And faith catches hold of the offer, it appropriates God, and makes all that is in him over to us to be ours; his wisdom to be ours, to teach us; his holiness ours, to sanctify us; his Spirit ours, to comfort us; his mercy ours, to save us.
“For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.” (2 Cor. 11:2-3)
“The purpose of the parable (Matt 13:24-30) is not to tell us about the presence of unbelievers in the church, but to explain God’s toleration of the wicked in the world. They are not now pulled out and burned because of the damage which might be done to the wheat.
So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” (John 8:57-58)
“You shall have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:3)
And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,
“Let all God’s angels worship him.” (Hebrews 1:6)
Therefore, the Son is one God with the Father.
“This Jesus is none other than God himself, distinct from the Father but eternally subsisting in the identical divine essence.”
— Mike Riccardi
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“So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.”
— Romans 6:11-12
“So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.”
— Romans 6:11-12
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
— Ephesians 2:1-2