41 Bible Verses about Fellowship, In The Gospel

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.

I assure you, that if two of you shall live in agreement together, whatever they ask shall be granted to them by my heavenly father. for where two or three are assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

for he that eats and drinks in a disrespectful manner, not discriminating the Lord's body, eateth and drinketh to his own punishment. hence it is, that many are weak and sickly among you, and no small number now sleep in their graves. for if we made such a discrimination, we should not be punished.read more.
but when we are punished, we are chastised by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, stay for one another. and if any one is press'd with hunger, let him eat at home; that ye may not otherwise meet with punishment. as for other matters, I will set them in order when I come.

and I do all for the gospel's sake, that I may share in the benefits thereof.

I should have this opinion of you, being sensible you make the dispensation I am under a common concern, with respect to my confinement, and the defence and confirmation of the gospel.

TO Titus my own convert to the common faith: grace and peace from God the father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our saviour.

Wherefore, christian brethren, you who are called to an heavenly inheritance, consider the apostle and high priest of the faith we profess, even Christ Jesus;

I address myself to you pastors, as being a pastor myself, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and as one who is to partake of the glory, that shall hereafter be made manifest;

by which we have receiv'd the most inestimable promises, that thereby you might become partakers of the divine perfections, after having escap'd from the corruption of a sensual world.

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have society one with another, and the blood of his son Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin.

giving thanks to the father, who has qualified you to share in that light he affords to his people:

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; although we now suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

You husbands, do you on your part behave with prudence towards your wives: who being of a more delicate make, ought to be treated with the greater tenderness: and consider they are equally intitled to the evangelical gifts, that your prayers may not be frustrated.

for both he that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all deriv'd from one: for which cause he is not asham'd to call them brethren, saying,

After this manner do you therefore pray: "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom come.

he said therefore to them, when ye pray, say, "our father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom come. thy will be done, on earth, as in heaven.

and holding out his hand towards his disciples, see there, said he, my mother, and my brothers. for whosoever shall do the will of my father, who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

and casting his eyes round the company, there, said he, are my mother and my brothers. for he that does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.

but he answered them, my mother and brethren are these, who attend to the word of God, and practise it.

But don't you assume that title, for you have but one doctor, who is the Christ; as for you, you are all brethren alike. don't stile any one among you, Father upon earth; for he alone is your father, who is in heaven.

"that the Gentiles should be heirs as well as the Jews, make one body together, and partake of the divine promise in Christ by the gospel."

if then, some of the branches are broken off, and thou like a wild olive, were grafted in their place to partake of the root and sap of the olivestock;

they have thought fit, I say, and they owed them as much. for if the Gentiles have participated of their spirituals, they are bound on their side to minister to them in their temporals.

that he might reconcile both in one body unto God by the cross, wherefore he destroyed the enmity that was between them: and being come, he preached the glad tidings of peace to YOU who were afar off, and to US that were nigh. for thro' him both of us have access by the same spirit to the father.

be stedfast therefore, and firmly maintain the doctrine I have delivered to you, either by word of mouth, or by my letter.

now I commend you, brethren, for remembring all my orders, and for keeping the rules I delivered to you.

by which also you will be saved, if you so retain it as I preached it to you, unless you have believed without sufficient grounds. I acquainted you chiefly with what I received myself, that Christ died for our sins, as the scriptures foretold:

and what you heard me deliver in the presence of many, intrust to such persons of integrity as are qualified to instruct others

But be you attach'd to the doctrine you have learnt, with which you are intrusted, considering by whom you have been instructed:

these things remonstrate: recommend and enforce with all your authority: guard yourself against all contempt.

the cup of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? for the bread being one, as many as we are, we are one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

Therefore now, you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and domesticks of God's family, being built upon the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, whereof Jesus Christ himself is the main stone of the angle: on which the whole structure rises with symmetry into a temple, consecrated by the Lord:read more.
who by his spirit has likewise made you a part of this divine mansion.

so we who are many, make all but one body in Christ, and every member subservient to one another.

For as the body is one, tho' it has many members, and all the members of that one body, tho' many, are one body: so also is the body of Christ.

Being one body, acted by one spirit, since you all have but one expectation in view; there is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

he is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of the whole creation.

which however rejected it is by men, is the precious stone, which God has chosen: and 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.

for by one spirit we have all been baptized, to be form'd into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free; and have been all made to drink of one spirit.

the favour of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communication of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. amen.

endeavouring to preserve the spiritual union by your affectionate attachment to one another.

If then there be any christian consolation, any charitable relief, any communion of the spirit, if any tenderness of compassion,