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Colossians 2:19
He doesn’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with growth from God.
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John 15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me.
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1 Corinthians 13 13-1 Corinthians 14 1
Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love— but the greatest of these is love.Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, and especially that you may prophesy.
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Colossians 2:2
I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of complete understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery— Christ.
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1 Thessalonians 4 9-1 Thessalonians 4 10
About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even more,
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Ephesians 4:12
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ,
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Philippians 1:9
And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment,
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Psalms 139:15-16
My bones were not hidden from you when I was made in secret, when I was formed in the depths of the earth.Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all my days were written in your book and planned before a single one of them began.
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Ephesians 1:4
For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him.
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1 Thessalonians 3 12
And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone, just as we do for you.
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Job 10:10-11
Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?You clothed me with skin and flesh, and wove me together with bones and tendons.
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Ephesians 4:15
But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into him who is the head— Christ.
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1 Timothy 1 5
Now the goal of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.
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Ephesians 3:17
and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,
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1 Thessalonians 2 13
This is why we constantly thank God, because when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also works effectively in you who believe.
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1 Corinthians 13 4-1 Corinthians 13 9
Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant,is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not irritable, and does not keep a record of wrongs.Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.For we know in part, and we prophesy in part,
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Ephesians 3:7
I was made a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the working of his power.
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1 Corinthians 12 12-1 Corinthians 12 28
For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body— so also is Christ.For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body— whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free— and we were all given one Spirit to drink.Indeed, the body is not one part but many.If the foot should say,“ Because I’m not a hand, I don’t belong to the body,” it is not for that reason any less a part of the body.And if the ear should say,“ Because I’m not an eye, I don’t belong to the body,” it is not for that reason any less a part of the body.If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?But as it is, God has arranged each one of the parts in the body just as he wanted.And if they were all the same part, where would the body be?As it is, there are many parts, but one body.The eye cannot say to the hand,“ I don’t need you!” Or again, the head can’t say to the feet,“ I don’t need you!”On the contrary, those parts of the body that are weaker are indispensable.And those parts of the body that we consider less honorable, we clothe these with greater honor, and our unrespectable parts are treated with greater respect,which our respectable parts do not need. Instead, God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the less honorable,so that there would be no division in the body, but that the members would have the same concern for each other.So if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.Now you are the body of Christ, and individual members of it.And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, leading, various kinds of tongues.
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Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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1 Thessalonians 1 3
We recall, in the presence of our God and Father, your work produced by faith, your labor motivated by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1John 4:16
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1 Peter 1 22
Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth, so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other, from a pure heart love one another constantly,
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Galatians 5:13-14
For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.
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1 Corinthians 8 1
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that“ we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
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2 Thessalonians 1 3
We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, since your faith is flourishing and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing.
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Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.