The best Bible verses for fellowship (ESV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for fellowship (ESV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?"2 Corinthians 6:14
"Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?"2 Corinthians 6:14
"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."2 Corinthians 13:14
"and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and shall eat there, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God."Deuteronomy 27:7
"So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,"Philippians 2:1
"that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,"Philippians 3:10
"Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life."Philippians 4:3
"and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised."Galatians 2:9
"And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers."Acts 2:42
"Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them."Amos 5:22
"And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD."Exodus 24:5
"It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel, for it is a contribution. It shall be a contribution from the people of Israel from their peace offerings, their contribution to the LORD."Exodus 29:28
"And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play."Exodus 32:6
"An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you."Exodus 20:24
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 fellowship (ESV) are 2 Corinthians 6:14, 2 Corinthians 13:14, Deuteronomy 27:7. 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 fellowship (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 fellowship (ESV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.