The best Bible verses for belonging (ESV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for belonging (ESV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain."Revelation 13:8
"and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain."Revelation 13:8
"So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech."Ruth 2:3
"Then the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. These cities, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belong to Ephraim. Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea,"Joshua 17:9
"For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does."1 Corinthians 7:4
"A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord."1 Corinthians 7:39
"For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them."1 Corinthians 9:19
"If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body."1 Corinthians 12:15
"And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body."1 Corinthians 12:16
"But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ."1 Corinthians 15:23
"They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us."1 John 2:19
"We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous."1 John 3:12
"For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness."1 Thessalonians 5:5
"But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation."1 Thessalonians 5:8
"Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we."2 Corinthians 10:7
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for belonging (ESV) are Revelation 13:8, Ruth 2:3, Joshua 17:9. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to belonging (ESV) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for belonging (ESV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.