41 Bible Verses about Commitment, to God's people

They devoted themselves to the instruction given by the apostles and to fellowship, breaking bread and praying together.

to preserve the unity of the Spirit by binding peace upon yourselves. For there is one Body and one Spirit ??as you were called for the one hope that belongs to your call ??5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Also, let the peace of Christ be supreme within your hearts ??that is why you have been called as members of the one Body. And you must be thankful.

In our one body we have a number of members, and the members have not all the same function; so too, for all our numbers, we form one Body in Christ and we are severally members one of another. Our talents differ with the grace that is given us; if the talent is that of prophecy, let us employ it in proportion to our faith;read more.
if it is practical service, let us mind our service; the teacher must mind his teaching, the speaker his words of counsel; the contributor must be liberal, the superintendent must be in earnest, the sick visitor must be cheerful. Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good. Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;

As the human body is one and has many members, all the members of the body forming one body for all their number, so is it with Christ. For by one Spirit we have all been baptized into one Body, Jews or Greeks, slaves or freemen; we have all been imbued with one Spirit. Why, even the body consists not of one member but of many.read more.
If the foot were to say, 'Because I am not the hand, I do not belong to the body,' that does not make it no part of the body. If the ear were to say, 'Because I am not the eye, I do not belong to the body,' that does not make it no part of the body. If the body were all eye, where would hearing be? If the body were all ear, where would smell be? As it is, God has set the members in the body, each as it pleased him. If they all made up one member, what would become of the body? As it is, there are many members and one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I have no need of you,' nor again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you.' Quite the contrary. We cannot do without those very members of the body which are considered rather delicate, just as the parts we consider rather dishonourable are the very parts we invest with special honour; our indecorous parts get a special care and attention which does not need to be paid to our more decorous parts. Yes, God has tempered the body together, with a special dignity for the inferior parts, so that there may be no disunion in the body, but that the various members should have a common concern for one another. Thus if one member suffers, all the members share its suffering; if one member is honoured, all the members share its honour. Now you are Christ's Body, and severally members of it.

I give you a new command, to love one another ??as I have loved you, you are to love one another. By this everyone will recognize that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

And above all you must be loving, for love is the link of the perfect life.

Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you.

Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;

Be in debt to no man ??apart from the debt of love one to another. He who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law.

Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

And may the Lord make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men (as is my love for you),

You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another,

We are bound always to thank God for you, brothers ??it is proper that we should, because your faith grows apace and your mutual love, one and all, is increasing.

Let your brotherly love continue.

Do honour to all, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honour the emperor.

For this is the message you have learned from the very beginning, that we are to love one another:

Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;

This is how we are sure that we love God's children, by loving God and obeying his commands

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

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds ??25 not ceasing to meet together, as is the habit of some, but admonishing one another, all the more so, as you see the Day coming near.

Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility,

So let us stop criticizing one another; rather make up your mind never to put any stumbling-block or hindrance in your brother's way.

Welcome one another, then, as Christ has welcomed yourselves, for the glory of God.

Brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ I beg of you all to drop these party-cries. There must be no cliques among you; you must regain your common temper and attitude.

Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Let the inspiration of Christ dwell in your midst with all its wealth of wisdom; teach and train one another with the music of psalms, with hymns, and songs of the spiritual life; praise God with thankful hearts.

Refuse to put young widows on the list, for when their wanton desires alienate them from Christ, they want to marry

Rather admonish one another daily, so long as this word To-day is uttered, that none of you may be deceived by sin and hardened.

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Be hospitable to each other, and do not grudge it.

You younger men must also submit to the presbyters. Indeed you must all put on the apron of humility to serve one another, for the haughty God opposes, but to the humble he gives grace.

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you guardians; shepherd the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his own blood.

And then there is the pressing business of each day, the care of all the churches.

I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;

fain, in our yearning affection for you, to impart not only the gospel of God to you but our very souls as well ??you had so won our love.

Brothers, we beg you to respect those who are working among you, presiding over you in the Lord and maintaining discipline; hold them in special esteem and affection, for the sake of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

It is a popular saying that "whoever aspires to office is set upon an excellent occupation."

Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief ??which would be a loss to yourselves.

Now I make this appeal to your presbyters (for I am a presbyter myself, I was a witness of what Christ suffered and I am to share the glory that will be revealed), be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly instead of being pressed to it, not to make a base profit from it but freely, not by way of lording it over your charges but proving a pattern to the flock.