29 Bible Verses about Building Relationships

For we are fellow labourers employed by God: you are his field, and his mansion.

to all this add love, which is the band of perfect union:

compleat my joy, by pursuing the same view, living in mutual love, by being unanimous, and cultivating that harmony.

I advise you in like manner to lay out your fallacious treasure in acts of charity, that when you die, they may secure to you everlasting habitations.

being firmly attach'd to, and founded upon him: establishing yourselves in the faith you have been taught, and being thankful for the improvement you make therein.

but being sincere in mutual love, may be entirely united to Christ, who is the head:

and be his true disciple, not professing that justification, which is derived from the law, but that which is from the gospel,

so that your souls may be possess'd with faith in Christ.

'tis for this end I have sent you Timothy, who is my dear disciple, and a faithful christian, who will inform you how I behave my self in every church where I teach the gospel of Christ.

he shall be great, he shall be the son of the most high. the Lord God shall give him the throne of his father David.

for the same temper of mind ought to be in you as was in Christ Jesus:

or indeed that we may have mutual consolation from the faith which is in common to you and to me.

and let us animate one another to the mutual returns of love, and kind offices: not abandoning our assemblies,

I mean that one or other of you cries out "I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas,

being built upon the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, whereof Jesus Christ himself is the main stone of the angle:

Jude the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those that are sanctified by God the father, and by their vocation are reserved for Jesus Christ.

what concord can Christ maintain with Belial? what concern has a believer with an infidel?

but far be it from me that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is as contemptible to me, as I am to the world.

such is he, who heaps up his treasure here, and makes no provision for another world.

in brotherly kindness be passionately affected to one another; in honour prefer one another:

and don't pretend to say within your selves, We have Abraham for our father: for I tell you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham:

for all the law is comprehended in this one precept, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

for you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

you your selves are as so many living stones, you are the edifice, the spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, agreeable to God by Jesus Christ.

thus fitly qualifying his servants for their respective offices, in order to build up the body of Christ:

Now as Jesus was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting their net into the sea: for they were fishermen.

I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this secret, (for fear you should presume too much on your selves) that blindness has fallen upon a part of Israel, until the time when the Gentiles shall be fully come in.

for the mind is better improv'd by the gospel-dispensation, than by the distinctions about meats, in which some have been so uselesly vers'd.

and every one that abandons his family, his brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake, shall receive in that age an hundred times the value, and shall inherit hereafter everlasting life.