30 Bible Verses about connection

instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine.

so too, for all our numbers, we form one Body in Christ and we are severally members one of another.

as the entire Body is welded together and compacted by every joint with which it is supplied, the due activity of each part enables the Body to grow and build itself up in love.

he is prior to all, and all coheres in him.

for it is through him that we both enjoy our access to the Father in one Spirit.

but the animate, not the spiritual, comes first, and only then the spiritual.

Now mere food will not bring us any nearer to God; if we abstain we do not lose anything, and if we eat we do not gain anything.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing).

If the foot were to say, 'Because I am not the hand, I do not belong to the body,' that does not make it no part of the body.

Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me.

The questions at issue referred to their own religion and to a certain Jesus who had died. Paul said he was alive.

For there is one Body and one Spirit ??as you were called for the one hope that belongs to your call ??5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

for it is evident that our Lord sprang from Judah, and Moses never mentioned priesthood in connexion with that tribe.

He is not the God of dead people but of living. You are far wrong."

for although I am absent in body I am with you in spirit, and it is a joy to note your steadiness and the solid front of your faith in Christ.

whereas anyone whose life is true comes out into the light, to make it plain that his actions have been divinely prompted.

Whereas now, within Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;

Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

[Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers. What have righteousness and iniquity in common, or how can light associate with darkness?

God is not a God of dead people but of living, for all live to him."

So you are servant no longer but son, and as son you are also heir, all owing to God.

For where your treasure lies, your heart will lie there too.

What harmony can there be between Christ and Beliar, or what business has a believer with an unbeliever?

Indeed, whatever you say or do, let everything be done in dependence on the Lord Jesus, giving thanks in his name to God the Father.

Now you are Christ's Body, and severally members of it.

Also, he is the head of the Body, that is, of the church, in virtue of his primacy as the first to be born from the dead ??that gives him pre-eminence over all.

but he did not live with her as a husband till she bore a son, whom he called Jesus.

The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I have no need of you,' nor again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you.'

(The Lord means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is open freedom.)