And they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring. He made two of them this way for the two corners.
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.
And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together,
they shall be separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring. Thus shall it be with both of them; they shall form the two corners.
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