because of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now.

Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us (and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

begging us with great earnestness for the blessing and fellowship of helping the saints.

Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any affection or mercy,

I pray that the faith you share with us may deepen your understanding of every blessing that belongs to you in Christ.

And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

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My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

Through the evidence of this service they will glorify God because of your obedience to your confession in the gospel of Christ and the generosity of your sharing with them and with everyone.

and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.