The best Bible verses for community (ESV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for community (ESV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation, the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh spoke, it was good in their eyes."Joshua 22:30
"When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation, the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh spoke, it was good in their eyes."Joshua 22:30
"They were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole assembly, for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy."2 Chronicles 31:18
"“If the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the LORD's commandments ought not to be done, and they realize their guilt,"Leviticus 4:13
"And he shall carry the bull outside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly."Leviticus 4:21
"“If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the LORD's commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt,"Leviticus 4:27
"“Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is a thing most holy and has been given to you that you may bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?"Leviticus 10:17
"And he shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering."Leviticus 16:5
"He shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly."Leviticus 16:33
"“Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones."Leviticus 20:2
"And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,"Leviticus 20:4
"“Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head."Numbers 1:2
"These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the chiefs of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel."Numbers 1:16
"They shall keep guard over him and over the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, as they minister at the tabernacle."Numbers 3:7
"And Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the congregation listed the sons of the Kohathites, by their clans and their fathers' houses,"Numbers 4:34
"And you shall bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the whole congregation of the people of Israel."Numbers 8:9
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 community (ESV) are Joshua 22:30, 2 Chronicles 31:18, Leviticus 4:13. 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 community (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 community (ESV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.