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to be in the relation of a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (usually followed by to): He belongs to the Knights of Columbus.
to have the proper qualifications, especially social qualifications, to be a member of a group: You don't belong in this club.
to be proper or due; be properly or appropriately placed, situated, etc.:Books belong in every home. This belongs on the shelf. He is a statesman who belongs among the great.
Life is hard and we can't do it on our own. Having a knowledge or sense of belonging is a foundational human desire. There are places and gatherings where we just "fit" and situations and settings where we feel out of place or unwelcome. Consider some of those places in your life ... areas of life where you feel you belong and others where you don't. How open are you to helping others to not just feel but know that they belong?
Deuteronomy 10:14 To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.
Job 12:13 “To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.
Job 12:16 To him belong strength and insight; both deceived and deceiver are his.
Job 25:2 “Dominion and awe belong to God; he establishes order in the heights of heaven.
Psalm 62:11,12 “Power belongs to you, God, and with you, Lord, is unfailing love”; and, “You reward everyone according to what they have done.”
Psalm 95:4 In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.
Psalm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.
Psalm 115:16 The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to mankind.
Proverbs 16:1 To humans belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue.
Proverbs 16:11 Honest scales and balances belong to the Lord; all the weights in the bag are of his making.
Malachi 2:15 Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
Matthew 19:14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
Luke 2:4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.
Luke 6:30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
John 3:31 The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all.
John 8:35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.
John 8:47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
John 14:24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
John 16:15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”
Romans 1:6 And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
Romans 7:4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
Romans 8:9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.
Romans 12:5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
Romans 14:8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
Galatians 5:24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 6:10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
Colossians 2:20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:
Colossians 3:5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
1 Thessalonians 5:5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
Hebrews 10:39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
1 John 3:19,20 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
Revelation 7:10 And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”