63 Bible Verses about The church

Who is this who appears like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awesome as an army with banners?

Then it moved against the Heavenly Army. It persuaded some of the Heavenly Army to fall to the earth, along with some of the stars, and it trampled them. Then it set itself in arrogant opposition to the Prince of the Heavenly Army, from whom the regular burnt offering was taken away, in order to overthrow his sanctuary. Because of the transgression, the Heavenly Army will be given over, along with the regular burnt offering, and in that rebellion truth will be cast to the ground, while he continues to prosper and to act." read more.
"Then I heard one holy person speaking, and another holy person addressed the one who was speaking: "In the vision about the regular burnt offering, how much time elapses while the desecration terrifies and both the Holy Place and the Heavenly Army are trampled?'

You are beautiful, my darling, like Tirzah, lovely like Jerusalem, as awesome as an army with banners.

The secret meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven gold lamp stands is this: the seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lamp stands are the seven churches."

Among the lamp stands there was someone like the Son of Man. He was wearing a long robe with a gold sash around his chest.

Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, because all of us eat from the same loaf.

Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.

In the same way, even though we are many people, we are one body in the Messiah and individual parts connected to each other.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.

I tell you that you are Peter, and it is on this rock that I will build my congregation, and the powers of hell will not conquer it.

Indeed, our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Then the LORD will create over the entire site of Mount Zion including over those who assemble there a cloud by day

But this is what the LORD says: "He will seize even the warriors' plunder, and the captives of tyrants will be rescued. I myself will quarrel with those who have a quarrel with you, and I myself will save your children.

having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the Messiah Jesus himself being the cornerstone.

After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that is Jesus the Messiah.

As you come to him, the living stone who was rejected by people but was chosen and precious in God's sight, you, too, as living stones, are building yourselves up into a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, so that you may offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus, the Messiah.

"It will come about in the last days that the mountain that is the LORD's Temple will be established as the highest of mountains, and will be raised above the hills; all the nations will stream to it.

"As you were watching, a rock was quarried but not with human hands and it struck the iron and clay feet of the statue, breaking them to pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together and became like chaff from a summer threshing floor that the breeze carries away without leaving a trace. Then the rock that struck the statue grew into a huge mountain and filled the entire earth.

This is what the Lord GOD says, "I'm also going to take a shoot from the top of a cedar and plant it. I'll pluck off its delicate twigs and transplant it on a high and lofty mountain. I'll transplant it on Israel's land, and it will grow branches, bear fruit, and become a majestic cedar. All sorts of birds will rest under it, and they'll settle down in the shade of its branches. Then all the trees of the fields will know that I, the LORD, bring down the lofty tree and exalt the lowly tree. I dry up the green tree and cause the dry tree to bud. I the LORD have spoken this, and I will fulfill it."

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he went into the Most Holy Place once for all and secured our eternal redemption.

Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God's church, which he acquired with his own blood.

Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it,

The person who speaks in a foreign language builds himself up, but the person who prophesies builds up the church.

Therefore, the person who speaks in a foreign language should pray for the ability to interpret it.

so that he might make it holy by cleansing it, washing it with water and the word, and might present the church to himself in all its glory, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and without fault.

That is what some of you were! But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah and by the Spirit of our God.

Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it,

I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.

Now Saul heartily approved of putting Stephen to death. That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except for the apostles was scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria. Devout men buried Stephen as they mourned loudly for him. But Saul kept trying to destroy the church. Going into one house after another, he began dragging off men and women and throwing them in prison.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in union with the Messiah Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from the people of your own country as they did from those Jews who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who have persecuted us, and who please neither God nor any group of people,

because he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith. And so a large number of people was brought to the Lord.

Nevertheless, believers were being added to the Lord in increasing numbers both men and women.

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades or allow your Holy One to experience decay.

I'll give you shepherds after my own heart, and they'll shepherd you with knowledge and good sense."

And it is he who gifted some to be apostles, others to be prophets, others to be evangelists, and still others to be pastors and teachers, to equip the saints, to do the work of ministry, and to build up the body of the Messiah

Now I am rejoicing while suffering for you as I complete in my flesh whatever remains of the Messiah's sufferings on behalf of his body, which is the church.

which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills everything in every way.

I, the LORD, watch over it And I water it continuously. I guard it night and day so no one can harm it.

We want you to know, brothers, about God's grace that was given to the churches of Macedonia.

God has put everything under the Messiah's feet and has made him the head of everything for the good of the church,

For the husband is the head of his wife as the Messiah is the head of the church. It is he who is the Savior of the body.

In her chamber, the king's daughter is glorious; her clothing is embroidered with gold thread.

and might present the church to himself in all its glory, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and without fault.

In the same way, my brothers, through the Messiah's body you also died as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God.

Indeed, just as the church is submissive to the Messiah, so wives must be submissive to their husbands in everything.

For by one Spirit all of us Jews and Greeks, slaves and free were baptized into one body and were all privileged to drink from one Spirit.

You have homes in which to eat and drink, don't you? Or do you despise God's church and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

If anyone destroys God's sanctuary, God will destroy him, for God's sanctuary is holy. And you are that sanctuary!

She has been given the privilege of wearing fine linen, dazzling and pure." (The fine linen represents the righteous deeds of the saints.)

to him be glory in the church and in the Messiah Jesus to all generations, forever and ever! Amen.

He did this so that now, through the church, the wisdom of God in all its variety might be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realm

in case I am delayed, so that you may know how to behave in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Your sister church in Babylon, chosen along with you, sends you greetings, as does Mark, whom I regard as a son.

Throngs of camels will blanket you: the young camels of Midian and Ephu; all those from Shebu will come. They'll carry gold and frankincense, and proclaim the praise of the LORD.

Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God's church, which he acquired with his own blood.

Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters of fruit. I told myself, "I'll go up the palm tree, and take hold of its fruit. May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples.

This is what the LORD says: "See, I will extend prosperity to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; and you will nurse, and you will be carried on her hip, and bounced upon her knees.

in case I am delayed, so that you may know how to behave in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Pray for peace for Jerusalem: "May those who love you be at peace!

"Upon your walls, Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; all day and all night they won't remain silent. You who make mention of the LORD, take no rest, and give him no rest until he prepares, establishes and makes Jerusalem a song of praise throughout the earth.

That other angel told him, "Run and tell that young man: "Jerusalem will be an inhabited city without walls due to the number of people and livestock within it. I myself will be an encircling rampart of fire,' declares the LORD, "and I will be the glory in her midst.'

Within her citadels God is known as a place of refuge.

Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.

Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, because all of us eat from the same loaf.

Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, since you are to be free from yeast. For the Messiah, our Passover, has been sacrificed.