Solidarity

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with <FI>it<Fi> do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with <FI>it<Fi> do all the members;

of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together!

`Happy the peacemakers--because they shall be called Sons of God.

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers, — read the full passage →

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world; — read the full passage →

for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office, — read the full passage →

till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also <FI>is<Fi> the Christ,

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common.

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

that they all may be one, as Thou Father <FI>art<Fi> in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together! — read the full passage →

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love?

And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing,

from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down,

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; — read the full passage →

where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman--but the all and in all--Christ.

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

Also you--being dead in the trespasses and the sins, — read the full passage →

in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth--in him;

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also <FI>is<Fi> the Christ, — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

that they all may be one, as Thou Father <FI>art<Fi> in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me. — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus,

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment, — read the full passage →

`And ye--ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director--the Christ, and all ye are brethren;

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him; — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

`And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me; — read the full passage →

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also <FI>is<Fi> the Christ, — read the full passage →

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

`Again, I say to you, that, if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask--it shall be done to them from my Father who is in the heavens, — read the full passage →

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-<FI> stone<Fi> , — read the full passage →

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk. — read the full passage →

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. — read the full passage →

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

`And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me;

and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;

These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said--`Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee, — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`And he also who hath received the one talent having come, said, Sir, I knew thee, that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering from whence thou didst not scatter; — read the full passage →

Also, in Judah hath the hand of God been to give to them one heart to do the command of the king and of the heads, in the matter of Jehovah;

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

Also you--being dead in the trespasses and the sins, — read the full passage →

for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;

And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;

`And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

As dew of Hermon--That cometh down on hills of Zion, For there Jehovah commanded the blessing--Life unto the age!

for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all <FI>is<Fi> rich to all those calling upon Him,

wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that <FI>is<Fi> above every name,

As the good oil on the head, Coming down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, That cometh down on the skirt of his robes,

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

to me--the less than the least of all the saints--was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news--the untraceable riches of the Christ, — read the full passage →

the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, <FI>is<Fi> with you all! Amen.

And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'