Bible Verses About Community Formation

For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

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

For the body is not one member, but many.

How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

But now are they many members, yet but one body.

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;