Togetherness

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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

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

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

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, — read the full passage →

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

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. — read the full passage →

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

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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.

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

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

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

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.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

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

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

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.

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. — read the full passage →

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

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, — read the full passage →

for he who welcomes him participates in his evil works.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

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