For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.
Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.
At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!
I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons.
Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the Lord has told him to.
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