One Another - How?

“One Another” Bible Passages
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Love occurs in the context of a relationship. Jesus did not wash everyone’s feet, He did not feed the
crowds each time He taught, and He did not love each person in the same way. The Bible describes the
relationship Jesus had with John as more intimate than His relationship with Peter. Yet Peter, James and
John all had a different of level relationship to Jesus that the other nine apostles. Jesus did not treat
them all equal.
As modern followers of Jesus we often confuse inclusion for equality. God includes us, we all have a part
in His plan. But we are not all equal, we all have a verity of gifts, talents, ability and calling. In our
difference, God relates to us personally. We do not have a one size fits all kind of love for God. The love
of God is personal, it considers who we are and our relationship to Him. The love of God manifest as
discipline, direction, forgiveness or anger depending on our condition and relationship to God.
As our natures are more and more conformed into the image of Christ Jesus, we will love out of our
nature more and more. The result will not be a one size fits all kind of love. But we too, will find in us the
ability to be personal. We will love people as the Lord is loving them, seeking not to cover them in love
but to transform them by love. Even unconditional love is given as an environment for growth and
maturity.
Dealing with people, sin and heaven
God is in our midst to help us live together. This quest for together is not a quest to avoid conflict, but
an endeavor to find agreement with God in our living together. To those called to follow Jesus, it is
assumed our main purpose in life is to live as ambassadors of Jesus Christ on earth. If we interpret all the
“one another” passages that follow as a divine call to empower people in their fallen and broken
relationship with God, we miss loves primary purpose. The goal of the “one another” passages is the
same as the passage that follows, to have Christ in our midst.
"If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you
have won your brother. "But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with
you, so that BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY FACT MAY BE
CONFIRMED. "If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to
listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. "Truly I
say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and
whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven. "Again I say to you,
that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done
for them by My Father who is in heaven. "For where two or three have gathered
together in My name, I am there in their midst."
(Mat 18:15-20)
All the passages that follow have a context. Each passage has a subject, someone to do the action and
an object, the ones to receives the action. The more we live by the whole word of God and not break it
into parts, is the way we live holy and happy lives in union with the Father. The Bible cannot be replaced
with even holy extractions or critical passages. We need all the word. But focusing on highlights or
themes allows us to focus and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. If a verse below speaks to you or you
feel the Holy Spirit leading, dig deeper into the passage it comes from. Look into what conditions or
context the verse comes from. Who is acting? Who is receiving? Why?

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It is also important to know that the people of God, God’s family is not a public or universal group. The
family of God consist of people who have made a choice to follow God. Each person is on a different
level of understanding and living out that commitment, but anyone who is a follower of Jesus must
comply to the conditions of following. Many people in our day are seeking to encounter and experience
God as a follower/disciple when they only believe in God. Biblical believing is not the same as what
believing is today.
I believe that all the commands that follow in the one another passages below have the basic context for
life in Christ Jesus.
1. The goal is to have the nature and character of Jesus Christ maturing in the life of the follower.
Only when we maintain our eyes on Jesus, when He alone is the primary focus, do we rightly
discern the truth.
2. Speaking the truth in love is required. Both truth and love are required expressions of our lives.
When we distort the truth or conceal it, we fail to love people in a transforming Godly way.
Truth speaking avoids the overemphasis of our personal opinion and the de-emphasis of our
fears and anxiety.
3. Transparency in an ongoing development of Christ like transformation. The more we look into
the mirror of God the more we are honest about our motives and desires. We learn to be honest
and simple in both our self talk and our speech to others. The love of God empowers us to have
courage to face our own selfish desires and to lovely deal with the motivations of others that are
in our sphere of relational responsibility.
4. We are doers of the word. Our deeds, what we do matters. We are not justified by thoughts
alone. Wanting to do the good, desiring to obey, and longing to love God falls short if actions do
not follow. Faith and works, work together. Wanting to love someone is not the same as actually
loving them.
As you advance from knowing to doing, seek to do the tight action to the right recipients. Often our
family and close friends are the last to experience Christ in us when they are intended by God to be the
first. Why do we often give grace to strangers and withhold it from family? As the Holy Spirit prompts
you, record the names of the people who are to receive from you a specific kind of “one another”
action.
Leviticus 19:11 "Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive one another."
John 13:14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one
another's feet.
John 13:34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love
one another.
John 13:35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
Romans 12:10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.

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Romans 12:16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with
people of low position. Do not be conceited.
Romans 13:8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he
who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Romans 14:13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not
to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way.
Romans 15:7 Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
Romans 15:14 I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete
in knowledge and competent to instruct one another.
Romans 16:16 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
1 Cor. 1:10 I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with
one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind
and thought.
Galatians 5:13 You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the
sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.
Ephesians 4:2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God
forgave you.
Ephesians 5:19 Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in
your heart to the Lord,
Ephesians 5:21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Colossians 3:13 Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one
another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with
all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
1 Thess. 5:11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
Hebrews 3:13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may
be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.
Hebrews 10:25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us
encourage one another-- and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
James 4:11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges
him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in
judgment on it.

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1 Peter 3:8 Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers,
be compassionate and humble.
1 Peter 4:9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.
1 Peter 5:5 Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older. All of you, clothe
yourselves with humility toward one another , because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the
humble."
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and
the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
1 John 3:11 This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
1 John 3:23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one
another as he commanded us.
1 John 4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has
been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is
made complete in us.
1 Peter 4:8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be
healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
James 5:9 Don't grumble against each other, brothers, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing
at the door!
Hebrews 13:1 Keep on loving each other as brothers. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 We ought always to thank
God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every
one of you has for each other is increasing.
2 Thessalonians 1:3 We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your
faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing.
1 Thess. 5:15 Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each
other and to everyone else.
1 Thess. 5:13 Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each
other.
1 Thess. 5:11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
1 Thess. 4:18 Therefore encourage each other with these words.
1 Thess. 4:9 Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been
taught by God to love each other.

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1 Thess. 3:12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone
else, just as ours does for you.
Colossians 3:13 Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one
another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices
Galatians 5:26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Galatians 6:2 Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
1 Cor. 12:25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal
concern for each other.
Galatians 5:15 If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by
each other.
1 Cor. 11:33 So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for each other.
Romans 1:12 that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith.
Ephesians 4:16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament,
grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Philippians 2:3-5 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider
others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the
interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus.

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