Quotes About Community

I was personally unknown, however, to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

And they glorified God because of me.

Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, accompanied by Barnabas. I took Titus along also.

But as for the highly esteemed—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—those leaders added nothing to me.

They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood to be condemned.

For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.

The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?

Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham.

So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.

Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.

Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.

I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.