This is a list of 70 verses for prayer and meditation in the setting of the divided church but in hope of church unity. It was originally developed to accompany each of our 70 days walking from Erfurt to Rome, but it could be used in any number of other situations, from personal devotion to church study to ecumenical gatherings. Feel free to augment or alter the list as you see fit.

1. John 17:11
Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

2. Psalm 133:1
Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

3. Ephesians 1:22-23
God put all things under Christ’s feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

4. Ephesians 2:14
For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility.

5. Ephesians 2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.

6. Ephesians 2:22
In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

7. Ephesians 4:1-3
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

8. Ephesians 4:4-6
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

9. I Corinthians 1:10
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

10. I Corinthians 1:13
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

11. I Corinthians 3:5
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.

12. I Corinthians 3:11
For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

13. I Corinthians 3:23
You are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

14. I Corinthians 6:5
Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers?

15. I Corinthians 8:6
Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

16. I Corinthians 10:17
Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

17. I Corinthians 11:18
When you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you.

18. I Corinthians 11:19
There must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

19. I Corinthians 12:12
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

20. I Corinthians 12:13
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body— Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

21. I Corinthians 12:21
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

22. I Corinthians 12:24-25
But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

23. I Corinthians 12:26
If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

24. I Corinthians 13:7
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

25. Psalm 55:12-14
For it is not an enemy who taunts me—
   then I could bear it;
it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me—
   then I could hide from him.
But it is you, a man, my equal,
   my companion, my familiar friend.
We used to take sweet counsel together;
   within God’s house we walked in the throng.

26. Mark 10:27
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

27. Jude 22
Be merciful to those who doubt.

28. Genesis 33:4
Esaus ran to meet Jacob and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

29. I Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

30. I Peter 3:9
Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

31. I John 2:9
Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.

32. I John 2:10
Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.

33. I John 2:11
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.

34. I John 3:1
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!

35. I John 3:2
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears,we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

36. I John 3:12
Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.

37. I John 3:15
Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.

38. I John 3:16
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

39. I John 3:18
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

40. I John 3:23
And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

41. I John 4:2
This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.

42. I John 4:7
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

43. I John 4:11
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

44. I John 4:12
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

45. I John 4:15
If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.

46. I John 4:20
If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

47. I John 4:21
And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

48. I John 5:1
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.

49. Galatians 5:14-15
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

50. Galatians 5:22-23
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

51. Galatians 5:25-26
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

52. Galatians 6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

53. Galatians 6:10
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

54. Philippians 1:29
For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake.

55. Philippians 2:1-2
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

56. Philippians 2:3
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

57. Philippians 2:4
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

58. Philippians 2:5-6
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.

59. Philippians 4:2-3
I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. 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.

60. Philippians 4:14
It was kind of you to share my trouble.

61. Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

62. Matthew 5:21-22
You have heard that it was said to those of old, “You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.” But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, “You fool!” will be liable to the hell of fire.

63. Matthew 5:23-24
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

64. Matthew 5:43-45
You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven.

65. Matthew 5:46-47
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

66. Matthew 7:3-5
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, “Let me take the speck out of your eye,” when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

67. Matthew 12:50
Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.

68. Matthew 18:21-22
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.”

69. Proverbs 27:6
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

70. John 17:22
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one.