And they compelled one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many are called, but few chosen.

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;

And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brothers!

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Then said he to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.