Bible Verses about βcooperationβ
The Bible contains 50 verses about cooperation across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
β[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.β
βLook not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.β
βLet all things be done decently and in order.β
βEndeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.β
βTwo [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.β
βLet this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:β
βΒΆ Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.β
βFor 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.β
βAnd if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.β
βThat at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth;β
βAnd being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.β
βAnd [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.β
βΒΆ Do all things without murmurings and disputings:β
βAgain, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm [alone]?β
βBut made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:β
βWho, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:β
βWherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:β
βFor it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.β
βFulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.β
βThat ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;β
βΒΆ If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,β
βΒΆ Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.β
βΒΆ A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to dwell together in unity!β
βHolding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.β
βFor all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.β
βCan two walk together, except they be agreed?β
βYea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.β
βBut I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.β
βFor I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.β
βBut ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.β
βHim therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.β
βBut I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.β
βFor the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.β
βYet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.β
βFor he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.β
βFor indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.β
βI sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.β
βReceive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:β
βBecause for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.β
βThat ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.β
βBut that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.β
βThese all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.β
βFor it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;β
βAnd they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.β
βNow therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?β
βAnd put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.β
βForasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, [Ye must] be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no [such] commandment:β
βThere is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also vanity, yea, it [is] a sore travail.β
βAnd when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James [the son] of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas [the brother] of James.β
βWhen therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.β
