Mark 3:31-35 (NIV)
31Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him.
32A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”
33“Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked.
34Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!
35Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”
Proverbs 22:11 (NIV)
11He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend.
Mark 4:11-12 (NIV)
11He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables
12so that, ” ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’ ”