Quotes About Community

Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have labored with me for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.

Now I rejoice greatly in the Lord that at last you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it.

Nevertheless, you have done well to share in my affliction.

And as you Philippians know, in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church but you partnered with me in the matter of giving and receiving.

For even while I was in Thessalonica, you provided for my needs again and again.

Greet all the saints in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me send you greetings.

All the saints send you greetings, especially those from the household of Caesar.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.

We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints—

the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of truth, the gospel

and who also informed us of your love in the Spirit.

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face,

For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.

rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.

When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.

Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,

Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.