⁵ have we not authority a sister -- a wife -- to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

⁴² and he brought him unto Jesus: and having looked upon him, Jesus saith, `Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas, thou shalt be called Cephas,' (which is interpreted, A rock.)

¹⁴ And Jesus having come into the house of Peter, saw his mother-in-law laid, and fevered,

¹⁹ and other of the apostles I did not see, except James, the brother of the Lord.

⁷ for I wish all men to be even as I myself `am'; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

¹⁴ these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

² it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

³ forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

² aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;

⁶ if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

⁴ honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

³⁹ A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;

¹⁵ And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself -- let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such `cases', and in peace hath God called us;

¹² and I say this, that each one of you saith, `I, indeed, am of Paul' -- `and I of Apollos,' -- `and I of Cephas,' -- `and I of Christ.'

¹² A garden shut up `is' my sister-spouse, A spring shut up -- a fountain sealed.

¹ I have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones!

² I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! `Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled `with' dew, My locks `with' drops of the night.'

⁴⁶ And while he was yet speaking to the multitudes, lo, his mother and brethren had stood without, seeking to speak to him,

⁴⁷ and one said to him, `Lo, thy mother and thy brethren do stand without, seeking to speak to thee.'

⁴⁸ And he answering said to him who spake to him, `Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?'

⁴⁹ And having stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, he said, `Lo, my mother and my brethren!

⁵⁰ for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'

⁵⁵ is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

³⁰ and the mother-in-law of Simon was lying fevered, and immediately they tell him about her,

³ Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?' -- and they were being stumbled at him.

¹⁵ Matthew and Thomas, James of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,

¹² after this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples; and there they remained not many days.

¹ And I commend you to Phebe our sister -- being a ministrant of the assembly that `is' in Cenchrea --

⁹ Thou hast emboldened me, my sister-spouse, Emboldened me with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

¹⁰ How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.