Church Fellowship

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.”

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

All who believed were together, and had all things in common. — read the full passage →

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

All who believed were together, and had all things in common.

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. — read the full passage →

that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer. — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart, — read the full passage →

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. — read the full passage →

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth. — read the full passage →

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed. — read the full passage →

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. — read the full passage →

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, — read the full passage →

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, — read the full passage →

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, — read the full passage →

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, — read the full passage →

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.