21 Bible Verses about organization

And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then powers, then gifts of performing cures, aids, governments, different tongues.

for God is not [the friend] of disorder but of peace.

but let all things be done becomingly and in order.

neither consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that all the nation should perish.

but the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and remind you of all things which I have told you.

There is one body, and one spirit, as you also are called in one hope of your call;

above all things have fervent love one for another, for love hides a multitude of sins.

If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

But if Christ is in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the spirit is life on account of righteousness.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

For if I am absent in the flesh, still I am present in spirit with you, rejoicing and beholding your order and the strength of your faith in Christ.

Let no one therefore glory in men; for all things are yours,

Do you not understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is cast out on the earth?

and you shall be brought before governors, and kings, for my sake, for a testimony to them and the nations.

IT is a true saying, If any one desires an episcopate he desires a good work.

that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly [worlds] should be made known, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God,

And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on the earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you unbind on the earth shall be unbound in heaven.

neither is he served by the hands of men as needing any thing, since he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;

And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we also are.

For this reason I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere, in every church.

AND in those days he went out on the mountain to pray, and spent the whole night in prayer to God.