Quotes About Community

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.

in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by Godís will I may succeed in coming to you.

For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each otherís faith.

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.

That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jew, then for the Greek.

A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ëMy Peopleí who are not My people, and I will call her ëMy Belovedí who is not My beloved,”

and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ëYou are not My people,í they will be called ësons of the living God.í”

For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,

In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.

If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,

do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.

You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.

Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function,

so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.

We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If oneís gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith;