Cross references

Luke 8:21

But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”

Luke 8:21 BSB

Luke 8:21 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Luke 11:27–28 (16 votes) and James 1:22 (13 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Genesis 7 to 3 John 1.

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Which verses does Luke 8:21 point to?

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  1. As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!” But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

  2. James 1:2213 votes

    Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

  3. John 13:1711 votes

    If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

  4. If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

  5. Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

  6. For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. He says: “I will proclaim Your name to My brothers; I will sing Your praises in the assembly.” …

  7. You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

  8. And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

  9. Then they inquired, “What must we do to perform the works of God?” Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”

  10. Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ …

  11. And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’

  12. Luke 8:154 votes

    But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.

  13. John 20:173 votes

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