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109 Bible Verses about Church Unity
Think about humility, gentleness, patience, and living together in harmony. These are so important for us as believers. We're all connected in Christ, part of the same spiritual body. It's a powerful image, isn't it?
Ephesians 2:15-161 talks about how Christ broke down the walls between us, creating peace and bringing us together as one. He abolished the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. It's a reminder that our unity comes from Him.
And remember Jesus's prayer in John 17:21-222, just before he went to the cross? He prayed for us, that we would all be one, just as he and the Father are one. He longed for that unity, for us to reflect that incredible bond to the world. It's a pretty amazing thing to be part of.
Both you and God are witnesses that we were pure and honest and innocent in our dealings with you followers of the Lord.
Never stop praying, especially for others. Always pray by the power of the Spirit. Stay alert and keep praying for God's people.
All of our thoughts are known to God. He can understand what is in the mind of the Spirit, as the Spirit prays for God's people.
Give my greetings to all who are God's people because of Christ Jesus. The Lord's followers here with me send you their greetings.
What you are doing is much more than a service that supplies God's people with what they need. It is something that will make many others thank God.
I am now on my way to Jerusalem to deliver the money that the Lord's followers in Macedonia and Achaia collected for God's needy people.
When you collect money for God's people, I want you to do exactly what I told the churches in Galatia to do.
To God's church in Corinth. Christ Jesus chose you to be his very own people, and you worship in his name, as we and all others do who call him Lord.
My prayer is that God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!
This letter is to all of you in Rome. God loves you and has chosen you to be his very own people. I pray that God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!
You are better having a friend than to be all alone, because then you will get more enjoyment out of what you earn.
If you fall, your friend can help you up. But if you fall without having a friend nearby, you are really in trouble.
I promise that when any two of you on earth agree about something you are praying for, my Father in heaven will do it for you.
Whenever two or three of you come together in my name, I am there with you.
But none of you should be called a teacher. You have only one teacher, and all of you are like brothers and sisters.
But I am giving you a new command. You must love each other, just as I have loved you.
If you love each other, everyone will know that you are my disciples.
Holy Father, I am no longer in the world. I am coming to you, but my followers are still in the world. So keep them safe by the power of the name you have given me. Then they will be one with each other, just as you and I are one.
I want all of them to be one with each other, just as I am one with you and you are one with me. I also want them to be one with us. Then the people of this world will believe that you sent me.
I have honored my followers in the same way you honored me, in order that they may be one with each other, just as we are one.
I am one with them, and you are one with me, so they may become completely one. Then this world's people will know that you sent me. They will know that you love my followers as much as you love me.
The apostles often met together and prayed with a single purpose in mind. The women and Mary the mother of Jesus would meet with them, and so would his brothers.
They spent their time learning from the apostles, and they were like family to each other. They also broke bread and prayed together.
Everyone was amazed by the many miracles and wonders that the apostles worked.
All the Lord's followers often met together, and they shared everything they had.
The group of followers all felt the same way about everything. None of them claimed that their possessions were their own, and they shared everything they had with each other.
In a powerful way the apostles told everyone that the Lord Jesus was now alive. God greatly blessed his followers,
The apostles worked many miracles and wonders among the people. All of the Lord's followers often met in the part of the temple known as Solomon's Porch.
So we met together and decided to choose some men and to send them to you along with our good friends Barnabas and Paul.
A body is made up of many parts, and each of them has its own use.
That's how it is with us. There are many of us, but we each are part of the body of Christ, as well as part of one another.
Be friendly with everyone. Don't be proud and feel that you know more than others. Make friends with ordinary people.
God is the one who makes us patient and cheerful. I pray that he will help you live at peace with each other, as you follow Christ.
Then all of you together will praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I pray that God, who gives hope, will bless you with complete happiness and peace because of your faith. And may the power of the Holy Spirit fill you with hope.
My dear friends, as a follower of our Lord Jesus Christ, I beg you to get along with each other. Don't take sides. Always try to agree in what you think.
The one who plants is just as important as the one who waters. And each one will be paid for what they do.
Apollos and I work together for God, and you are God's garden and God's building.
By sharing in the same loaf of bread, we become one body, even though there are many of us.
The body of Christ has many different parts, just as any other body does.
Some of us are Jews, and others are Gentiles. Some of us are slaves, and others are free. But God's Spirit baptized each of us and made us part of the body of Christ. Now we each drink from that same Spirit.
It takes many parts to make a single body.
That's why the eyes cannot say they don't need the hands. That's also why the head cannot say it doesn't need the feet.
He did this to make all parts of the body work together smoothly, with each part caring about the others.
If one part of our body hurts, we hurt all over. If one part of our body is honored, the whole body will be happy.
Together you are the body of Christ. Each one of you is part of his body.
Love is patient and kind, never jealous, boastful, proud, or
rude. Love isn't selfish or quick tempered. It doesn't keep a record of wrongs that others do.
Love rejoices in the truth, but not in evil.
Love is always supportive, loyal, hopeful, and trusting.
God wants everything to be done peacefully and in order. When God's people meet in church,
Goodbye, my friends. Do better and pay attention to what I have said. Try to get along and live peacefully with each other. Now I pray that God, who gives love and peace, will be with you.
Faith in Christ Jesus is what makes each of you equal with each other, whether you are a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a man or a woman.
Christ has made peace between Jews and Gentiles, and he has united us by breaking down the wall of hatred that separated us. Christ gave his own body
to destroy the Law of Moses with all its rules and commands. He even brought Jews and Gentiles together as though we were only one person, when he united us in peace.
On the cross Christ did away with our hatred for each other. He also made peace between us and God by uniting Jews and Gentiles in one body.
You Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens with everyone else who belongs to the family of God.
You are like a building with the apostles and prophets as the foundation and with Christ as the most important stone.
Christ is the one who holds the building together and makes it grow into a holy temple for the Lord.
And you are part of that building Christ has built as a place for God's own Spirit to live.
And the mystery is this: Because of Christ Jesus, the good news has given the Gentiles a share in the promises God gave to the Jews. God has also let the Gentiles be part of the same body.
As a prisoner of the Lord, I beg you to live in a way that is worthy of the people God has chosen to be his own.
Always be humble and gentle. Patiently put up with each other and love each other.
Try your best to let God's Spirit keep your hearts united. Do this by living at peace.
All of you are part of the same body. There is only one Spirit of God, just as you were given one hope when you were chosen to be God's people.
We have only one Lord, one faith, and one baptism.
There is one God who is the Father of all people. Not only is God above all others, but he works by using all of us, and he lives in all of us.
Christ chose some of us to be apostles, prophets, missionaries, pastors, and teachers,
so his people would learn to serve and his body would grow strong.
This will continue until we are united by our faith and by our understanding of the Son of God. Then we will be mature, just as Christ is, and we will be completely like him.
Love should always make us tell the truth. Then we will grow in every way and be more like Christ, the head
of the body. Christ holds it together and makes all of its parts work perfectly, as it grows and becomes strong because of love.
Instead, be kind and merciful, and forgive others, just as God forgave you because of Christ.
Above all else, you must live in a way that brings honor to the good news about Christ. Then, whether I visit you or not, I will hear that all of you think alike. I will know that you are working together and are struggling side by side to get others to believe the good news.
Christ encourages you, and his love comforts you. God's Spirit unites you, and you are concerned for others.
Now make me completely happy! Live in harmony by showing love for each other. Be united in what you think, as if you were only one person.
Don't be jealous or proud, but be humble and consider others more important than yourselves.
Care about them as much as you care about yourselves
Euodia and Syntyche, you belong to the Lord, so I beg you to stop arguing with each other.
And, my true partner, I ask you to help them. These women have worked together with me and with Clement and with the others in spreading the good news. Their names are now written in the book of life.
He is the head of his body, which is the church. He is the very beginning, the first to be raised from death, so that he would be above all others.
I do it to encourage them. Then as their hearts are joined together in love, they will be wonderfully blessed with complete understanding. And they will truly know Christ. Not only is he the key to God's mystery,
God loves you and has chosen you as his own special people. So be gentle, kind, humble, meek, and patient.
Put up with each other, and forgive anyone who does you wrong, just as Christ has forgiven you.
Love is more important than anything else. It is what ties everything completely together.
Each one of you is part of the body of Christ, and you were chosen to live together in peace. So let the peace that comes from Christ control your thoughts. And be grateful.
This is why you must encourage and help each other, just as you are already doing.
Show them great respect and love because of their work. Try to get along with each other.
My friends, we beg you to warn anyone who isn't living right. Encourage anyone who feels left out, help all who are weak, and be patient with everyone.
Don't be hateful to people, just because they are hateful to you. Rather, be good to each other and to everyone else.
My dear friends, we always have good reason to thank God for you, because your faith in God and your love for each other keep growing all the time.
Don't correct an older man. Encourage him, as you would your own father. Treat younger men as you would your own brother,
and treat older women as you would your own mother. Show the same respect to younger women that you would to your sister.
Run from temptations that capture young people. Always do the right thing. Be faithful, loving, and easy to get along with. Worship with people whose hearts are pure.
Stay away from stupid and senseless arguments. These only lead to trouble,
Remind your people to obey the rulers and authorities and not to be rebellious. They must always be ready to do something helpful
and not say cruel things or argue. They should be gentle and kind to everyone.
You must encourage one another each day. And you must keep on while there is still a time that can be called “today.” If you don't, then sin may fool some of you and make you stubborn.
We should keep on encouraging each other to be thoughtful and to do helpful things.
Some people have given up the habit of meeting for worship, but we must not do that. We should keep on encouraging each other, especially since you know that the day of the Lord's coming is getting closer.
Try to live at peace with everyone! Live a clean life. If you don't, you will never see the Lord.
My dear friends, you should be quick to listen and slow to speak or to get angry.
If you are angry, you cannot do any of the good things God wants done.
But the wisdom that comes from above leads us to be pure, friendly, gentle, sensible, kind, helpful, genuine, and sincere.
When peacemakers plant seeds of peace, they will harvest justice.
You obeyed the truth, and your souls were made pure. Now you sincerely love each other. But you must keep on loving with all your heart.
And now you are living stones being used to build a spiritual house. You are also a group of holy priests, and with the help of Jesus Christ you will offer sacrifices that please God.
Finally, all of you should agree and have concern and love for each other. You should also be kind and humble.
Don't be hateful and insult people just because they are hateful and insult you. Instead, treat everyone with kindness. You are God's chosen ones, and he will bless you. The Scriptures say,
Most important of all, you must sincerely love each other, because love wipes away many sins.
Welcome people into your home and don't grumble about it.
Each of you has been blessed with one of God's many wonderful gifts to be used in the service of others. So use your gift well.
All of you young people should obey your elders. In fact, everyone should be humble toward everyone else. The Scriptures say, “God opposes proud people, but he helps everyone who is humble.”
Be humble in the presence of God's mighty power, and he will honor you when the time comes.
Give each other a warm greeting. I pray that God will give peace to everyone who belongs to Christ.
But if we live in the light, as God does, we share in life with each other. And the blood of his Son Jesus washes all our sins away.
We know what love is because Jesus gave his life for us. This is why we must give our lives for each other.
If we have all we need and see one of our own people in need, we must have pity on that person, or else we cannot say we love God.
Children, you show love for others by truly helping them, and not merely by talking about it.
My dear friends, we must love each other. Love comes from God, and when we love each other, it shows we have been given new life. We are now God's children, and we know him.
God is love, and anyone who doesn't love others has never known him.
Dear friends, since God loved us this much, we must love each other.
No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is truly in our hearts.
But if we say we love God and don't love each other, we are liars. We cannot see God. So how can we love God, if we don't love the people we can see?
The commandment that God has given us is: “Love God and love each other!”
We must support people like them, so we can take part in what they are doing to spread the truth.
Dear friends, keep building on the foundation of your most holy faith, as the Holy Spirit helps you to pray.
And keep in step with God's love, as you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to show how kind he is by giving you eternal life.
Rescue any who need to be saved, as you would rescue someone from a fire. Then with fear in your own hearts, have mercy on everyone who needs it. But hate even the clothes of those who have been made dirty by their filthy deeds.
I am John, a follower together with all of you. We suffer because Jesus is our king, but he gives us the strength to endure. I was sent to Patmos Island, because I had preached God's message and had told about Jesus.
If you have ears, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To everyone who wins the victory, I will give some of the hidden food. I will also give each one a white stone with a new name written on it. No one will know that name except the one who is given the stone.
Everyone who wins the victory will be made into a pillar in the temple of my God, and they will stay there forever. I will write on each of them the name of my God and the name of his city. It is the new Jerusalem my God will send down from heaven. I will also write on them my own new name.
Day after day they met together in the temple. They broke bread together in different homes and shared their food happily and freely,
Be sincere in your love for others. Hate everything that is evil and hold tight to everything that is good.
Love each other as brothers and sisters and honor others more than you do yourself.
We are not bosses who tell you what to believe. We are working with you to make you glad, because your faith is strong.
Stop all your dirty talk. Say the right thing at the right time and help others by what you say.
Put up with each other, and forgive anyone who does you wrong, just as Christ has forgiven you.
Let the message about Christ completely fill your lives, while you use all your wisdom to teach and instruct each other. With thankful hearts, sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.
We don't have to write you about the need to love each other. God has taught you to do this,
and you already have shown your love for all his people in Macedonia. But, my dear friends, we ask you to do even more.
Remember the Lord's people who are in jail and be concerned for them. Don't forget those who are suffering, but imagine you are there with them.
If you have sinned, you should tell each other what you have done. Then you can pray for one another and be healed. The prayer of an innocent person is powerful, and it can help a lot.
Finally, all of you should agree and have concern and love for each other. You should also be kind and humble.
My dear friends, we must love each other. Love comes from God, and when we love each other, it shows we have been given new life. We are now God's children, and we know him.
If we believe Jesus is truly Christ, we are God's children. Everyone who loves the Father will also love his children.