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What Does the Bible Say About Working Together?

Here are 10 Bible verses about working together, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

    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.

    BSBTwo are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up! Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone? And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

  2. #2Proverbs 27:17

    Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

    BSBAs iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

  3. #3Hebrews 10:24-25

    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.

    BSBAnd let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds. Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

  4. #4Ecclesiastes 4:9

    Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

    BSBTwo are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.

  5. #5Matthew 18:20

    For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

    BSBFor where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”

  6. #6Psalms 133:1

    A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

    BSBA song of ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!

  7. #7Colossians 3:23

    And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

    BSBWhatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,

  8. #8Ephesians 4:16

    From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

    BSBFrom Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.

  9. #91 Corinthians 3:9

    For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

    BSBFor we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

  10. #101 Corinthians 1:10

    Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

    BSBI appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree together, so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be united in mind and conviction.

Verse rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY). Scripture: KJV & BSB (public domain).

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