ἀδελφή

For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

Aren’t all His sisters with us as well? Where then did this man get all these things?”

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

For whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren’t His sisters here with us as well?” And they took offense at Him.

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel

…will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to His message.

But Martha was distracted by all the preparations to be made. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me!”

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

After Martha had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside to tell her, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”

“Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”

Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.

But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea.

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the saints with them.

But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.

Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

…older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

…to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets at your house:

Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.

The children of your elect sister send you greetings.