Quotes about Community

As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’

You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the settlements of the land.

When the sticks on which you write are in your hand and in full view of the people,

My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.

All the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel.

When the people enter, the prince shall go in with them, and when they leave, he shall leave.

You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who dwell among you and who have children. You are to treat them as native-born Israelites; along with you, they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

The workers of the city who cultivate it will come from all the tribes of Israel.

Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay.