Psalms 89:27
27And I will make him the afirstborn,bthe highest of the kings of the earth.
Matthew 12:50
50For cwhoever ddoes the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”Matthew 25:40
40And ethe King will answer them, f‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these gmy brothers, ▼▼Or brothers and sisters
you did it to me.’ John 20:17
17Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to imy brothers and say to them, j‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to kmy God and your God.’”Colossians 1:15-18
The Preeminence of Christ
15 lHe is the image of mthe invisible God, nthe firstborn of all creation. 16For by ▼▼That is, by means of; or in
him all things were created, pin heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether qthrones or rdominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created sthrough him and for him. 17And the is before all things, and in him all things uhold together. 18And vhe is the head of the body, the church. He is wthe beginning, xthe firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. Hebrews 1:5-6
5For to which of the angels did God ever say,y“You are my Son,
today I have begotten you”?
Or again,
z“I will be to him a father,
and he shall be to me a son”?
6And again, when he brings aathe firstborn into the world, he says,
ab“Let all God’s angels worship him.”
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