2758 verses about Community

Imitate me, O kindred, nor ever desert your station, nor abjure my brotherhood in courage: fight the holy and honorable fight of religion;

For having arranged a holy choir of piety, they encouraged one another, saying,

Now you are not ignorant of the charm of brotherhood, which the Divine and all wise Providence has imparted through fathers to children, and has engendered through the mother’s womb.

and increase the more powerfully by reason of this simultaneous rearing, and by daily intercourse, and by other education, and exercise in the law of God.

For being educated in the same law, and practising the same virtues, and reared up in a just course of life, they increased this harmony with each other.

For a like ardour for what is right and honorable increased their fellow-feeling towards each other.

For it acting along with religion, made their brotherly feeling more desirable to them.

Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.

Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”

Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.

If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.

“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions

and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’

He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!

Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?

Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?”

When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, “This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food.”

They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.

When the people of that place recognized him, they sent into all that surrounding region, and brought to him all who were sick;

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done.

When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.

It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.

A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road.

When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”

Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.’

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Leviticus 19:18

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.

They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.

Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

All the city was gathered together at the door.

Simon and those who were with him followed after him;

But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.

When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house.

Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.

Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.

When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.

He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.

He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, “He is insane.”

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, “Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you.”

Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!

For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.

When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.

Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.

They began to beg him to depart from their region.

He didn’t allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.”

He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides.

He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.

When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

He said to them, “You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.” For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.

They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him.

When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, “This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.

Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.”

He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass.

They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.

They all ate, and were filled.

When they had come out of the boat, immediately the people recognized him,

He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.

Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.

Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him.

He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”

For whoever is not against us is on our side.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.

Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Leviticus 19:18 There is no other commandment greater than these.”

For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” They grumbled against her.

When it was evening he came with the twelve.