- Hebrews 10:25 (NIV):
“not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
- Matthew 18:20 (NIV):
“For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
- Acts 2:42 (NIV):
“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.”
- 1 Corinthians 5:4 (NIV):
“So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present.”
- 1 Corinthians 14:26 (NIV):
“What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up.”
- Colossians 3:16 (NIV):
“Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.”
- Acts 20:7 (NIV):
“On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.”
- Hebrews 12:23-24 (NIV):
“You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.”
- Ephesians 4:11-12 (NIV):
“So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up.”
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV):
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.”
- 2 Chronicles 30:18-20 (NIV):
“Although most of the many people who came from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, ‘May the LORD, who is good, pardon everyone who sets their heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of their ancestors—even if they are not clean according to the rules of the sanctuary.’ And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.”
- 2 Corinthians 6:16 (NIV):
“What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: ‘I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.’”
- Acts 2:44-46 (NIV):
“All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.”
- Romans 1:12 (NIV):
“that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.”
- 1 Corinthians 14:31 (NIV):
“For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged.”
- Philippians 2:1-2 (NIV):
“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.”
- Acts 4:32 (NIV):
“All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.”
- 1 Thessalonians 4:18 (NIV):
“Therefore encourage one another with these words.”
- Hebrews 3:13 (NIV):
“But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called ‘Today,’ so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.”
- Hebrews 10:24 (NIV):
“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:18-20 (NIV):
“In the first place, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it. No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval. So then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat.”
- Acts 4:24 (NIV):
“When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. ‘Sovereign Lord,’ they said, ‘you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.’”
- Romans 12:4-5 (NIV):
“For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.”
- Colossians 2:2 (NIV):
“My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ.”
- Acts 4:31 (NIV):
“After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.”
- 1 Corinthians 14:26 (NIV):
“What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up.”
- Hebrews 10:24-25 (NIV):
“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
- Acts 20:7 (NIV):
“On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:17-18 (NIV):
“In the following directives I have no praise for you, for your meetings do more harm than good. In the first place, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it.”
- 1 Corinthians 14:26 (NIV):
“What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up.”