Bible verses about "community" | Godbey

¹³ Ye are the salt of the earth; and if the salt may lose its savor, in what shall it be salted? It is yet without value, except having been cast out, to be trodden under feet by the people. ¹⁴ Ye are the light of the world. A city sitting on a mountain is unable to be hidden. ¹⁵ Neither do they light a candle, and place it under a bushel, but on the candlestick; and it shineth to all who are in the house. ¹⁶ Let your light so shine before the people, in order that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

²⁵ in order that there may be no schisms in the body, but the members may care the same for one another. ²⁶ And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; if one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it. ²⁷ But you are the body of Christ and members one of another.

³ that nothing is to be according to self-seeking nor according to vain glory, but in humility esteeming one another better than yourselves; ⁴ looking not each after your own interests, but each after that of others. ⁵ Think the same thing among yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus: ⁶ who, being in the form of God, thought it not usurpation to be equal with God, ⁷ but he humbled himself, having taken the form of a servant, being in the likeness of men; and having been found in fashion like a man; ⁸ he humbled himself, being obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross. ⁹ Therefore God has indeed exalted him, and given him a name above every name; ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee must bow, of things in heaven and things upon the earth and things beneath the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, unto the glory of God the Father. ¹² So, my beloved brethren, as you have always harkened, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; ¹³ for God is the one working in you both to will and to do, of his own good pleasure. ¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputatious; ¹⁵ in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, ¹⁶ having the word of life; unto my boasting in the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain, neither did I labor in vain.

²⁰ For where two or three are assembled in my name, there I am in the midst of them.

³⁷ And He said to him; Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the law, and the prophets.

¹⁴ And we, exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the small-souled people, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.

³ For I speak, through the grace which has been given unto me, for every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, as God has imparted to each one the measure of faith. ⁴ For we indeed have many members in one body, but all the members have not the same office: ⁵ so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and members one of another. ⁶ But having gifts differing according to the grace given unto us, whether prophecy, it is according to the analogy of faith; ⁷ or ministry, it is in the ministry; or he that teacheth, in teaching; ⁸ or he that exhorteth, in exhortation; or he that giveth, with a single eye; he that presideth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness. ⁹ Let love be free from hypocrisy. Abhorring the evil, cleaving to the good: ¹⁰ kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; ¹¹ not slothful in business; boiling over in spirit; serving the Lord; ¹² rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing steadfastly in prayer; ¹³ communicating to necessities of the saints; pursuing hospitality.

⁴² and they were persevering in the teaching of the apostles and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. ⁴³ And fear came upon every soul; and many wonders and signs were wrought by the apostles in Jerusalem; and there was a great fear upon all. ⁴⁴ And all those who believed were together and had all things common, ⁴⁵ and they sold their possessions and personalities, and divided the same unto all, as each one had need. ⁴⁶ And daily of one accord in the temple they were persevering; and breaking bread from house to house, they received their food with gladness and purity of heart, ⁴⁷ praising God, and having favor unto all the people. And the Lord was daily adding to them those who were being saved.

² Bear the burdens of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

²⁴ and let us recognize one another in the provocation of divine love and good works: ²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as is the custom to some; but exhorting: and this the more, as you see the days drawing nigh.