so that with one purpose and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Parallel translations
- WEB that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- KJV That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- BSB so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- NKJV that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- NLT Then all of you can join together with one voice, giving praise and glory to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Quick answer
The goal of unity is that together, with one voice, the church might glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. United worship is the purpose of a united people.
Overview
Paul shows why harmony matters: so that the diverse church may glorify God 'with one accord' and 'one mouth.' Disunity fractures worship; unity amplifies it. The God they praise is named as the Father of the Lord Jesus, anchoring worship in the gospel. The aim of all the preceding instruction on the weak and strong is finally doxological, the united praise of God.
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- John 10:29–30My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
- Acts 4:24When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
- Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
- Rev 1:6and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
- 2 Cor 11:31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
- 1 Pet 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- Rom 15:9–11and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”
- 2 Cor 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
- Acts 4:32The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
- John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
- Zeph 3:9For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
- Zech 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
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