Quotes About Community

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Submit yourselves for the Lordís sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,

Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Show hospitality to one another without complaining.

As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.

If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.

For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?

As a fellow elder, a witness of Christís sufferings, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you:

Be shepherds of Godís flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is Godís will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;

not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

The church in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you greetings, as does my son Mark.

Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:

and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

We write these things so that our joy may be complete.

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.

Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.