Bible Verses About Community Living

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

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.

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

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.

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

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

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

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

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

Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

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

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

For the body is not one member, but many.

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

Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.

He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

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

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

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

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

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

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.