Quotes About Relationship

“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacobís brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ëHow have we despised Your name?í

Then you will know that I have sent you this commandment so that My covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD of Hosts.

“My covenant with him was one of life and peace, which I gave to him; it called for reverence, and he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.

And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.

Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

Then I will tell them plainly, ëI never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!í

Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

Someone told Him, “Look, Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to You.”

For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

“But what about you?” Jesus asked. “Who do you say I am?”

“Yes,” he answered. When Peter entered the house, Jesus preempted him. “What do you think, Simon?” He asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs and taxes: from their own sons, or from others?”

and said, ëFor this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one fleshí?

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

This is the first and greatest commandment.

But he replied, ëTruly I tell you, I do not know you.í

And a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”

Then Jesusí mother and brothers came and stood outside. They sent someone in to summon Him,

and a crowd was sitting around Him. “Look,” He was told, “Your mother and brothers are outside, asking for You.”

For whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”

“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in My name welcomes Me, and whoever welcomes Me welcomes not only Me, but the One who sent Me.”