22 Bible Verses About Unity and Working Together

  • Jesus prays in John 17:20-21 for later believers as well as his disciples, that they “may be one” so that the world may believe.
  • Ephesians 4:3-6 calls unity “the unity of the Spirit” and follows it with a list of what is one: one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father.
  • 1 Corinthians 12 and Romans 12 describe the church as one body with many parts, each with a different gift.
  • Paul’s appeal for agreement in 1 Corinthians 1:10 answers factions that named themselves after Paul, Apollos, Cephas and Christ.
  • Nehemiah 4 records the wall of Jerusalem rising to half its height under mockery and threat, “for the people worked with all their heart.”

Unity among believers is something God gives and they are told to keep. Jesus prays that his followers “may be one” (John 17:21), and Paul calls it “the unity of the Spirit” (Ephesians 4:3) and describes the church as one body with many parts (1 Corinthians 12:12-13). Working together has its own passages: two workers helping each other up (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10), Paul and Apollos as “co-workers in God’s service” (1 Corinthians 3:8-9), and the builders of Jerusalem’s wall working “with…

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