Quotes About Community

And our people must also learn to devote themselves to good works in order to meet the pressing needs of others, so that they will not be unfruitful.

All who are with me send you greetings. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with all of you.

to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets at your house:

I always thank my God, remembering you in my prayers,

because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.

I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every good thing that is ours in Christ.

I take great joy and encouragement in your love, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.

So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,

I am sending back to you him who is my very heart.

I would have liked to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he could minister to me in my chains for the gospel.

So if you consider me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.

Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.

In the meantime, prepare a guest room for me, because I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings,

as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.

He says: “I will proclaim Your name to My brothers; I will sing Your praises in the assembly.”

And again: “I will put My trust in Him.” And once again: “Here am I, and the children God has given Me.”

But Christ is faithful as the Son over Godís house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sinís deceitfulness.

We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.

There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.