18 The tender lines of love that bind the groups of fleshy kin in families will fade away.
19 Not that the love for anyone will be the less; but men will see in all the motherhood, the fatherhood, the sisterhood, the brotherhood of man.
20 The family groups of earth will all be lost in universal love and fellowship divine.
21 Then to the multitudes he said, Whoever lives the life and does the will of God is child of God and is my mother, father, sister, friend.
22 And then he went aside to speak to mother and his other kindred in the flesh.
23 But he saw more than these. The maiden who once thrilled his very soul with love, a love beyond the love of any fleshly kin;
24 Who was the sorest tempter in the temple Heliopolis beside the Nile, who sung for him the sacred songs, was there.
25 The recognition was of kindred souls, and Jesus said,
26 Behold, for God has brought to us a power men cannot comprehend, a power of purity and love;
27 To make more light the burdens of the hour, to be a balm for wounded souls;