25 Bible Verses about The Church Universal

"Moreover I say to you that you are Petros (a rock), and on this petra (rock) I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against her.

to the festal assemblage and church of the firstborn, registered in heaven, to a Judge who is God of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

God has put all things under Christ's feet, and placed him as Head over all in the church,

because a husband is the head of his wife even as Christ is head of the church, his body, which he saves.

He is the head of his Body, the Church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, in order that in all things he may become preeminent.

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her,

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church;

There is a deep mystery here?? am speaking of Christ and his church.

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, and be shepherds of the church of God which he has purchased with his own blood.

in order that now his manifold wisdom should, through the church, be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly sphere,

And God has appointed those in the church to be first of all apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers. then workers of miracles, healers, helpers, administrators, users of various kinds of "tongues."

to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, to all generations, world without end, Amen.

in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word,

so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless.

I am writing this to you in case I should be detained, to let you see how you ought to behave in the household of God??he Church of the everliving God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

And great fear fell on all the church and upon all who had heard it.

For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out;

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through law, blameless.

But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.

Now throughout the whole of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria the Church continued to enjoy peace and to be spiritually built up. It was increasing in members also, as it kept walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God was made by the church for him.

What! Have you no houses in which to eat or drink? or do you wish to show your contempt for the church of God, and to shame those who have no homes to eat in? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I certainly do not praise you.

Do not be a cause of stumbling either to Jews of to Gentiles, or to the church of God.