Quotes About Community

if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach;

if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but enjoy the company of the lowly. Do not be conceited.

This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are Godís servants, who devote themselves to their work.

Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.

For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.

The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.

For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.

Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brotherís way.

If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.

So then, let us pursue what leads to peace and to mutual edification.

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.

We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus,