
Cards that speak to unity
36 study cards whose Scripture calls us toward oneness — to love one another, bear with one another, make peace and be reconciled. They are gathered here from across the traditions’ texts, that we might study together what unites us.
Words of Jesus
10“I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.”
Study this card“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Study this card“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”
Study this card“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.”
Study this card“Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.”
Study this card“A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Study this card“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”
Study this card“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to…”
Study this card“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.”
Study this card“Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
Study this cardThe Epistles
19“In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;”
Study this card“Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.”
Study this card“Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men. Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but…”
Study this card“Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not…”
Study this card“Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.”
Study this card“Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.”
Study this card“Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind…”
Study this card“Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.”
Study this card“For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.”
Study this card“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
Study this card“I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; being…”
Study this card“subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.”
Study this card“doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of…”
Study this card“Do all things without murmurings and disputes, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen…”
Study this card“bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.”
Study this card“Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any…”
Study this card“Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the…”
Study this card“Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.”
Study this card“This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.”
Study this cardThe Old Testament
1The Deuterocanon
2“And they cried to the Lord the God of Israel with one accord, that their children might not be made a prey, and their wives carried off, and their cities destroyed, and their holy things profaned,…”
Study this card“But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, prostrated themselves upon the ground, putting ashes upon their heads, praying with one accord, that the God of Israel would shew his…”
Study this cardThe Ethiopian Canon
4“And love one another, my sons, your brothers as a man who loves his own soul, and let each seek in what he may benefit his brother, and act together on the earth; and let them love each other as…”
Study this card“And it came to pass that after Jacob died the children of Israel multiplied in the land of Egypt, and they became a great nation, and they were of one accord in heart, so that brother loved brother…”
Study this card“And Jacob sent word to his sons that they should make peace, and they made peace with them, and placed the yoke of servitude upon them, so that they paid tribute to Jacob and to his sons always.”
Study this card“Let thy heart be strong, For the good shall announce righteousness to the good; The righteous with the righteous shall rejoice, And shall offer congratulation to one another.”
Study this cardThis is a curated selection, not an exhaustive list — the whole of Scripture calls the Body of Christ toward love and peace. Know a card that belongs here? Tell us.
