Bible Verses About Unity In The Church

When it comes to the Bible and its many verses about unity in the church, there are a lot of different things that can be said. One thing that stands out for me is that the Bible is clear about how important it is for Christians to work together. When we work together, we can accomplish so much more than if we were working alone.

The Bible also teaches us that God wants us to work together because He has a plan for His Church. He wants us to be unified and unified as one body in Christ.

When we work together and have unity, we can make an impact on our world. We can reach out to those around us with love and compassion. We can help those who need help or guidance by being there when they need us most. We will also be able to spread the gospel message throughout our communities and beyond!

Bible Verses About Unity In The Church

1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 822 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 543 helpful votes

Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Psalm 133:1 ESV / 458 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

Ephesians 4:1-6 ESV / 443 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, …

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 364 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 340 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

John 17:21 ESV / 313 helpful votes

That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

John 17:23 ESV / 283 helpful votes

I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 280 helpful votes

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

1 Corinthians 12:12 ESV / 256 helpful votes

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 247 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Ephesians 4:13 ESV / 243 helpful votes

Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Romans 12:4-5 ESV / 240 helpful votes

For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Romans 12:16 ESV / 238 helpful votes

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.

Philippians 1:27 ESV / 218 helpful votes

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,

Philippians 2:2 ESV / 217 helpful votes

Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 208 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

1 Corinthians 1:10-12 ESV / 204 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”

Philippians 2:1-3 ESV / 194 helpful votes

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Ephesians 4:11-13 ESV / 184 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 182 helpful votes

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

Acts 4:32 ESV / 181 helpful votes

Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.

Romans 15:5 ESV / 180 helpful votes

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

1 Corinthians 12:14 ESV / 168 helpful votes

For the body does not consist of one member but of many.

Romans 15:5-6 ESV / 168 helpful votes

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 14:19 ESV / 168 helpful votes

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

2 Chronicles 30:12 ESV / 163 helpful votes

The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord.

Ephesians 4:1 ESV / 162 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 161 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Amos 3:3 ESV / 160 helpful votes

“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?

Psalm 133:1-3 ESV / 159 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.

Ephesians 1:10 ESV / 154 helpful votes

As a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

John 13:35 ESV / 147 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 141 helpful votes

And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Matthew 23:8 ESV / 140 helpful votes

But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 139 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

John 17:11 ESV / 139 helpful votes

And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

Romans 15:6 ESV / 138 helpful votes

That together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 3:13-14 ESV / 137 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 134 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 130 helpful votes

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Philippians 2:1 ESV / 123 helpful votes

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,

1 John 4:12 ESV / 120 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

Ephesians 2:14 ESV / 119 helpful votes

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility

Philippians 2:1-4 ESV / 118 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:26 ESV / 116 helpful votes

If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 114 helpful votes

From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Ephesians 4:5 ESV / 109 helpful votes

One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Philippians 2:5 ESV / 102 helpful votes

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 102 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Ephesians 2:19-22 ESV / 101 helpful votes

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

Romans 12:4 ESV / 97 helpful votes

For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 95 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 94 helpful votes

Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

Ezekiel 37:17 ESV / 93 helpful votes

And join them one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

Galatians 3:26-28 ESV / 91 helpful votes

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 12:12-13 ESV / 89 helpful votes

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Romans 12:5 ESV / 89 helpful votes

So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Ephesians 4:4-6 ESV / 88 helpful votes

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 86 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 83 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

1 John 4:20 ESV / 82 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Philippians 4:2 ESV / 80 helpful votes

I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

Malachi 2:10 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 79 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. …

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 78 helpful votes

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 78 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …

Ephesians 4:23 ESV / 78 helpful votes

And to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 78 helpful votes

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV / 76 helpful votes

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, …

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 74 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Jude 1:3 ESV / 73 helpful votes

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

Ephesians 2:1-22 ESV / 73 helpful votes

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— …

Ephesians 4:6 ESV / 72 helpful votes

One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

1 Corinthians 12:25 ESV / 70 helpful votes

That there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

John 17:20-23 ESV / 70 helpful votes

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

John 17:20 ESV / 70 helpful votes

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 69 helpful votes

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Colossians 3:11 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

John 17:21-23 ESV / 67 helpful votes

That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 66 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 65 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 16:17 ESV / 64 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.

1 Peter 2:9-10 ESV / 62 helpful votes

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Acts 2:47 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

1 Corinthians 1:10-13 ESV / 61 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 17:1-26 ESV / 60 helpful votes

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. …

James 3:16 ESV / 58 helpful votes

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

Galatians 3:26-29 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Ephesians 2:12 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Ephesians 4:14 ESV / 54 helpful votes

So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Romans 14:1 ESV / 53 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 50 helpful votes

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:

Acts 2:46 ESV / 50 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,