100 Bible Verses about Reaching Out To One Another

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 73 helpful votes

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

John 15:12 ESV / 70 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

Philippians 2:4 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Romans 15:7 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 44 helpful votes

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 39 helpful votes

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Mark 16:15 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

Romans 12:16 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.

James 5:16 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Matthew 25:35-40 ESV / 32 helpful votes

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ ...

1 Peter 4:9 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.

James 4:11 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

John 13:34 ESV / 26 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Romans 15:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

1 Thessalonians 4:18 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

John 13:14 ESV / 22 helpful votes

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

1 John 4:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 3:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes

For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Matthew 5:42 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

John 15:13 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Luke 6:38 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Romans 16:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Romans 15:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Romans 14:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

Romans 12:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

James 2:14-17 ESV / 17 helpful votes

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes

See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

Galatians 5:26 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

1 Corinthians 16:20 ESV / 17 helpful votes

All the brothers send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

John 13:35 ESV / 17 helpful votes

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

2 John 1:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Romans 15:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes

I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.

John 15:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes

These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

Acts 20:35 ESV / 15 helpful votes

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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.

Colossians 3:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Galatians 5:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

2 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Greet one another with a holy kiss.

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Proverbs 3:27 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

1 John 3:23 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.

1 Peter 5:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Greet one another with the kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

Romans 14:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Matthew 5:13-16 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 11 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

James 5:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

1 Corinthians 11:33 ESV / 11 helpful votes

So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another—

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Romans 12:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes

So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 10 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Hebrews 13:1-2 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Philippians 1:9-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

1 John 4:19-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

James 1:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

1 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

Colossians 2:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Romans 15:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

Romans 14:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

Acts 2:42 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

James 1:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

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