Bible Verses About Friendship, Community & the Church
We are not meant to walk alone; God sets us in his family, the church, to love and build one another up. As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. These verses call you into faithful friendship and shared life in the body of Christ.
A friend is loving through every season, and a brother is born to stand with you in trouble.
A song of ascents. Of David. See how good it is, how lovely, when brothers and sisters live together in harmony!
And I tell you: you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church. The gates of the realm of the dead will not overpower it.
They gave themselves fully to the apostles’ teaching and to the shared life, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.
Share with God’s holy people in their needs, and be eager to welcome guests.
So keep on encouraging one another and strengthening each other, as you are already doing.
You are Christ’s body, and each of you individually is one of its parts.
Take up one another’s heavy loads, and so you will fulfill the law of Christ.
As iron is sharpened against iron, so one person sharpens another.
Let us not walk away from our own gatherings, as some have made it their practice, but keep urging one another on, and do it more and more as you see the day coming closer.
If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a brother or sister, that person is a liar. For anyone who does not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, is not able to love God, whom they have not seen. And this is the command we have received from him: the one who loves God is to love a brother or sister as well.
Love one another warmly, as brothers and sisters in one family; take the lead in honoring one another.