Eph 4:3
Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and {that} there be no divisions among you; but {that} ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. {divisions: Gr. schisms}
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also {do} ye. {quarrel: or, complaint}
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also {is} Christ.
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Follow peace with all {men}, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, {art} in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, {and} easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. {partiality: or, wrangling}
And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. {And} be at peace among yourselves.
{There is} one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
[A Song of degrees of David.] Behold, how good and how pleasant {it is} for brethren to dwell together in unity! {together...: Heb. even together}
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
And above all these things {put on} charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: {in: or, into} {stature: or, age}
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, {art} in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, {see that ye} love one another with a pure heart fervently:
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. {And} be at peace among yourselves.
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
My dove, my undefiled is {but} one; she {is} the {only} one of her mother, she {is} the choice {one} of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; {yea}, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and {other} five curtains {shall be} coupled one to another.
And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.
Let brotherly love continue.
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.