failure to assemble
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25not deserting our assembly, as some are accustomed to do, but consoling one another, and even more so as you see that the day is approaching.
20For wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I, in their midst.”
26What is next, brothers? When you gather together, each one of you may have a psalm, or a doctrine, or a revelation, or a language, or an interpretation, but let everything be done for edification.
42Now they were persevering in the doctrine of the Apostles, and in the communion of the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers.
16Let the word of Christ live in you in abundance, with all wisdom, teaching and correcting one another, with psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing to God with the grace in your hearts.
46Also, they continued, daily, to be of one accord in the temple and to break bread among the houses; and they took their meals with exultation and simplicity of heart, 47praising God greatly, and holding favor with all the people. And every day, the Lord increased those who were being saved among them.
13Instead, exhort one another every day, while it is still called ‘today,’ so that none of you may become hardened through the falseness of sin.
1A Canticle in steps: of David. Behold, how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to dwell in unity.
11And the same one granted that some would be Apostles, and some Prophets, yet truly others evangelists, and others pastors and teachers, 12for the sake of the perfection of the saints, by the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ, 13until we all meet in the unity of faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as a perfect man, in the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ. 14So may we then no longer be little children, disturbed and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, and by the craftiness which deceives unto error. 15Instead, acting according to truth in charity, we should increase in everything, in him who is the head, Christ himself. 16For in him, the whole body is joined closely together, by every underlying joint, through the function allotted to each part, bringing improvement to the body, toward its edification in charity.
1Whoever has a will to withdraw from a friend, seeks occasions; he shall be reproached at all times.