Harmonize with One Another. “Live in harmony with one another.” (Romans 12:16, NIV). Harmony: When separate parts intentionally combine into a beautiful whole; to reconcile apparent differences into a combined unity; to adjust in order to fit together; to be of the same mind; to unite in the same direction in will, affection and conscience; …
Summing Up: Love One Another. “This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. By this all will know you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 15:12-13; 13:34-35). a. We …
Wash One Another’s Feet. “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.” (John 13:14-15, KJV). Foot-Washing: A simple act of hospitality; a house servant task, involving placing someone else’s dirty, smelly feet into a bowl of water and carefully cleansing those feet of all …
Confess to One Another. “Confess your sins to each other.” (James 5:16). Confess: to acknowledge openly; to freely admit to wrongdoing; to announce one’s guilt; to concede one’s shortcomings; to repent of sins; to agree with God that the sin is a sin. a. Mutual Confession. The research of the Orthodox Church states that the …
Exhort One Another. “If your gift is to come alongside others to exhort them, then give yourself to exhortation.” (Romans 12:8). Exhort: to urge to continue in the Faith; to beseech in strong terms; to come alongside to offer encouraging guidance; to inspire courage and hope; to call upon someone to act; to give affirming …
Bear With One Another. “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” (Ephesians 4:2, NIV). Bear With: to put up with; to make allowances for; to willingly endure; forbearance; to tolerate; to have patience with; to accept despite weaknesses in another. a. If there’s one thing we know about each …
Honor One Another. “Take delight in honoring each other.” (Romans 12:10, NLT). Honor: show deference to; to prefer over one’s self; to highly esteem; to greatly respect; to revere; to focus on the importance of another. a. Honoring someone goes beyond mere respect. To honor another person is to revere that person because that person …
Restore One Another. “If someone in the fellowship is overtaken by some sin or mistake, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness.” (Galatians 6:1). Restore: to set right; to repair; to refit; to mend; to rejoin; to bring back to original state; to heal. a. God is in the …
Encourage One Another. “Let us encourage one another.” (1 Thessalonians 5:11). Paraclete: Called to come alongside someone in need, in order to help and bear burdens by Pointing to God, Advising, Reminding, Advocating for, Comforting, Listening, Exhorting, Teaching and Encouraging. a. Some translations have “comfort” instead of “encourage” in this verse, and there is a …
Warn One Another. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom.” (Colossians 3:16). Admonish: to warn; to caution; to place into someone’s awareness; to reprove gently; to call attention to; to alert another person’s thinking; to offer sound advice and guidance. a. Sooner or …
Build Up One Another. “Edify one another, just as you have already been doing.” (1 Thessalonians 5:11). Edify: to build up a person or a community; to strengthen; to empower; to affirm certain qualities; to help someone or a group to grow, to reach maturity; to construct a building, an edifice, of faith and character …
Bear One Another’s Burdens. “Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens… Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way fulfill the law of Christ.” (Ps. 68:19; Galatians 6:2). Bearing Burdens: to lift up and carry; to take up and walk with; to intercede for someone else, whether through prayer or caregiving, whether tangible …