Verse 8

Suffering for Doing Good Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 12:10 : 10 Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.
  • Eph 4:31-5:2 : 31 You must put away all bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and slanderous talk– indeed all malice. 32 Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you. 1 Live in Love Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • Col 3:12 : 12 Exhortation to Unity and Love Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,
  • Eph 4:2 : 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love,
  • Zech 7:9 : 9 “The LORD of Heaven’s Armies said,‘Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other.
  • Matt 18:33 : 33 Should you not have shown mercy to your fellow slave, just as I showed it to you?’
  • Acts 4:32 : 32 Conditions Among the Early Believers The group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but everything was held in common.
  • Rom 12:15-16 : 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 16 Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.
  • 1 Cor 12:26 : 26 If one member suffers, everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored, all rejoice with it.
  • Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.
  • 1 John 3:18-19 : 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth. 19 And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,
  • Jas 5:11 : 11 Think of how we regard as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and you have seen the Lord’s purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
  • Heb 13:1 : 1 Final Exhortations Brotherly love must continue.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment is merciless for the one who has shown no mercy. But mercy triumphs over judgment.
  • 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
  • 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.
  • 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.
  • 1 Cor 1:10 : 10 Divisions in the Church I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree together, to end your divisions, and to be united by the same mind and purpose.
  • Phil 4:8-9 : 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if something is excellent or praiseworthy, think about these things. 9 And what you learned and received and heard and saw in me, do these things. And the God of peace will be with you.
  • Luke 10:33 : 33 But a Samaritan who was traveling came to where the injured man was, and when he saw him, he felt compassion for him.
  • Acts 2:1 : 1 The Holy Spirit and the Day of Pentecost Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.
  • Acts 27:3 : 3 The next day we put in at Sidon, and Julius, treating Paul kindly, allowed him to go to his friends so they could provide him with what he needed.
  • Acts 28:7 : 7 Now in the region around that place were fields belonging to the chief official of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably as guests for three days.
  • Ps 103:13 : 13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on his faithful followers.
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.
  • Phil 3:16 : 16 Nevertheless, let us live up to the standard that we have already attained.
  • Rom 15:5 : 5 Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another in accordance with Christ Jesus,