Who is Your Father, Mother, Brother and Neighbor?
Father
Malachi 2:10 NKJV Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously with one another By profaning the covenant of the fathers?
Jeremiah 31:8-9 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, And gather them from the ends of the earth, Among them the blind and the lame, The woman with child And the one who labors with child, together; A great throng shall return there.
They shall come with weeping, And with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, In a straight way in which they shall not stumble; For I am a Father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn.
Matthew 10:34-39 "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
"For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
"and 'a man's enemies will be those of his own household.'
"He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.“He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
"And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
"He who finds his life will lose it, and he who hates his life for My sake will find it.
Matthew 15:4-6 "For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and your mother', and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.'
"But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God."--
'then he need not honor his father or mother.' Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
Matthew 23:9 "Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.