Psalms 133:1

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Let brotherly love continue.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute.

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.

Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.

They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.

They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.

His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!

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

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.”

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,