21 Bible Verses about organization

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."

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. This custom prevails in all the churches of the saints.

Let everything be done decently and in order.

"You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation be destroyed."

"But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and bring to your remembrance everything that I have told you.

There is one body and one spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling.

Above everything have fervent love to one another; for love veils a multitude of sins.

"If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.

But if Christ is in you, though your bodily self is dead because of sin, your spirit is full of life because of righteousness.

I in them and thou in me; that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou didst send me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

For though I am absent from you in body, I am with you in spirit, happy to note your discipline and the solid front of your faith in Christ.

So let no one make boast in men. For all things are yours;

"Do you not know how all that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterward evacuated;

"And you will be taken before governors and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

This is a faithful saying, "If any man is seeking the office of a minister he is aspiring to a noble task."

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

"I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind upon the earth shall be bound in the heavens, and whatever you loose upon earth shall be loosed in the heavens."

"neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.

I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

With this in mind I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ; the manner in which I ever teach everywhere in every church.

It happened about that time that he went out into the mountain to pray. He continued all night in prayer to God.