Hebrews 2:11

The one who sanctifies and those He sanctifies share a common origin, so Jesus is not ashamed to call believers His brothers. Christ identifies Himself closely with His redeemed people.

Cross-references · 17

• Rom 8:29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
• Heb 10:10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
• Heb 10:14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
• John 20:17Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
• Heb 13:12Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
• Matt 12:48–50But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
• John 17:19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
• John 17:21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
• Acts 17:26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
• Matt 25:40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
• Heb 2:14Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
• Gal 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
• Heb 11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
• Acts 17:28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
• Mark 8:38Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
• Matt 28:10Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
• Luke 9:26For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.

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