Unity Through Humility

2 Therefore if there is any ^[a]consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any ^(A)affection and mercy,

Character of the New Man

¹² Therefore, ^(A)as the elect of God, holy and beloved, ^(B)put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

Seeing God Through Love

^12 (A)No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

Knowing God Through Love^(A)

^7 (B)Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who ^(C)loves is born of God and knows God. ⁸ He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

^14 (A)The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and ^(B)the ^[a]communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Blessed Unity of the People of God

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

¹³ For ^(A)by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—^(B)whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and ^(C)have all been made to drink ^[a]into one Spirit.

² that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, ^[a]both of the Father and of Christ,

¹⁸ For ^(A)through Him we both have access ^(B)by one Spirit to the Father.

Christ Our Cornerstone

¹⁹ Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, ²⁰ having been ^(C)built ^(D)on the foundation of the ^(E)apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being ^(F)the chief cornerstone, ²¹ in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into ^(G)a holy temple in the Lord, ^22 (H)in whom you also are being built together for a ^(I)dwelling place of God in the Spirit.