Bible Verses About Loneliness and Community
God's design for belonging, the body of Christ as remedy for isolation.
God designed us for belonging, using the body of Christ as His chosen remedy for human isolation. While we find our primary comfort in Him, He often uses the hands and feet of community to remind us of His love. Seek out the fellowship that strengthens your faith and allows you to carry one another's burdens.
Key Passages
"Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do."
"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth."
"Let brotherly love continue."
"For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another."
"¶ And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."
"God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land."
"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"
"¶ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour."
"For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
"Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?"
"And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken."
"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."
"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."
"And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers."
"And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles."
"And all that believed were together, and had all things common;"
"And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need."
"And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,"
"Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved."
"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:"
"So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another."
"Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep."
"And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it."
"Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular."
"Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ."
"And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:"
"Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."
"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."
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