44 Bible Verses about Going To Church

but if he will not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that every case may be decided on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.

and if anyone is hungry let him eat at home. You must not gather, only to incur condemnation. I will give you my instructions upon the other matters when I come.

As the human body is one and has many members, all the members of the body forming one body for all their number, so is it with Christ.

If they want any information, let them ask their husbands at home; it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

Also, he is the head of the Body, that is, of the church, in virtue of his primacy as the first to be born from the dead ??that gives him pre-eminence over all.

praising God and looked on with favour by all the people. Meantime the Lord added the saved daily to their number.

It is time for the Judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the fate of those who refuse obedience to God's gospel?

Now you are Christ's Body, and severally members of it.

And then there is the pressing business of each day, the care of all the churches.

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, as well as to all who, wherever they may be, invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord no less than ours:

for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ also (though he is the saviour of the Body) is the head of the church;

Also, salute the church that meets in their house. Salute my beloved Epaenetus, the first in Asia to be reaped for Christ.

if you attend to the wearer of the handsome clothes and say to him, "Sit here, this is a good place," and tell the poor man, "You can stand," or "Sit there at my feet,"

This is a profound symbol, I mean as regards Christ and the church.

"Two men went up to pray in the temple; one was a Pharisee and the other was a taxgatherer.

A man said to him, "Is it only a few, sir, who are saved?" So he said to them,

In our one body we have a number of members, and the members have not all the same function;

and the churches were strengthened in the faith and increased in numbers day by day.

for the equipment of the saints, for the business of the ministry, for the upbuilding of the Body of Christ,

Is anyone ill? let him summon the presbyters of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

so too, for all our numbers, we form one Body in Christ and we are severally members one of another.

(if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);

Next day we accompanied Paul to James; all the presbyters were present,

varieties of service, but the same Lord;

for God is a God not of disorder but of harmony. [Move 33b-36 to follow vs 40] As is the rule in all churches of the saints,

Do you not know you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells within you?

What! have you no houses to eat and drink in? Do you think you can show disrespect to the church of God and put the poor to shame? What can I say to you? Commend you? Not for this.

for what you have contributed to the gospel from the very first day down to this moment;

and on finding him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught considerable numbers. It was at Antioch too that the disciples were originally called "Christians."

Now, all over Judaea, Galilee, and Samaria, the church enjoyed peace; it was consolidated, inspired by reverence for the Lord and by its invocation of the holy Spirit, and so increased in numbers.

To ensure this, I am sending you Timotheus, my beloved and trustworthy son in the Lord; he will remind you of those methods in Christ Jesus which I teach everywhere in every church.

in case I am detained, to let you see how people ought to behave within the household of God; it is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the Truth.

For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.

Then he came to Nazaret, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue as was his custom. He stood up to read the lesson

leave your gift at the very altar and go away; first be reconciled to your brother, then come back and offer your gift.

These are the people who set up divisions and distinctions, sensuous creatures, destitute of the Spirit.

If the foot were to say, 'Because I am not the hand, I do not belong to the body,' that does not make it no part of the body.

And yet, when you have mundane issues to settle, you refer them to the judgment of men who from the point of view of the church are of no account!

instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine.

Then to the angel of the church at Smyrna write thus: ??These are the words of the First and Last, who was dead and came to life:

But I would like you to understand this: Christ is the head of every man, man is the head of woman, and God is the head of Christ.

For there is one Body and one Spirit ??as you were called for the one hope that belongs to your call ??5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

John to the seven churches in Asia: grace be to you and peace from HE WHO IS AND WAS AND IS COMING, and from the seven Spirits before his throne,