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1. All saints that are united to Jesus Christ, their head, by His Spirit, and faith, although they are not made thereby one person with Him, have fellowship in His graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory;

1 John 1:3 John 1:16 Philippians 3:10 Romans 6:5-6

1 John 1:3 KJV Read in context

³That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

John 1:16 KJV Read in context

¹⁶And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

Philippians 3:10 KJV Read in context

¹⁰That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

Romans 6:5-6 KJV Read in context

⁵For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: ⁶Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

and, being united to one another in love, they have communion in each others gifts and graces,

Ephesians 4:15-16 1 Corinthians 12:7 1 Corinthians 3:21-23

Ephesians 4:15-16 KJV Read in context

¹⁵But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: ¹⁶From 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.

1 Corinthians 12:7 KJV Read in context

⁷But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

1 Corinthians 3:21-23 KJV Read in context

²¹Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; ²²Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; ²³And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

and are obliged to the performance of such duties, public and private, in an orderly way, as do conduce to their mutual good, both in the inward and outward man.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 1 Thessalonians 5:14 Romans 1:12 1 John 3:17-18 Galatians 6:10

1 Thessalonians 5:11 KJV Read in context

¹¹Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 KJV Read in context

¹⁴Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

Romans 1:12 KJV Read in context

¹²That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

1 John 3:17-18 KJV Read in context

¹⁷But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? ¹⁸My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Galatians 6:10 KJV Read in context

¹⁰As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

2. Saints by profession are bound to maintain an holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God, and in performing such other spiritual services as tend to their mutual edification;

Hebrews 10:24-25 Hebrews 3:12-13

Hebrews 10:24-25 KJV Read in context

²⁴And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: ²⁵Not 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.

Hebrews 3:12-13 KJV Read in context

¹²Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. ¹³But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

as also in relieving each other in outward things according to their several abilities, and necessities;

Acts 11:29-30

Acts 11:29-30 KJV Read in context

²⁹Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judæa: ³⁰Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

which communion, according to the rule of the gospel, though especially to be exercised by them, in the relation wherein they stand, whether in families,

Ephesians 6:4

Ephesians 6:4 KJV Read in context

⁴And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

or churches,

1 Corinthians 12:14-27

1 Corinthians 12:14-27 KJV Read in context

¹⁴For the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? ¹⁶And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? ¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? ¹⁸But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. ¹⁹And if they were all one member, where were the body? ²⁰But now are they many members, yet but one body. ²¹And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. ²²Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: ²³And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. ²⁴For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: ²⁵That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. ²⁶And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. ²⁷Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

yet, as God offereth opportunity, is to be extended to all the household of faith, even all those who in every place call upon the name of the Lord Jesus; nevertheless their communion one with another as saints, doth not take away or infringe the title or propriety which each man hath in his goods and possessions.

Acts 5:4 Ephesians 4:28

Acts 5:4 KJV Read in context

⁴Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

Ephesians 4:28 KJV Read in context

²⁸Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.