Matthew 16:18
And I, yes I, tell you, your name from now on is to be Peter, Rock, and on a massive rock like this I will build my church, and the powers of the underworld shall never overthrow it.
John 1:42
Then he took him to Jesus. Jesus looked him over and said, "You are Simon, son of John. From now on your name shall be Cephas" (which means Peter, or Rock).
Ephesians 2:19-22
So you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but you are fellow-citizens of God's people and members of His family;
Colossians 1:18
Yes, He is the Head of the church as His body. For He is the beginning, the first-born among the dead, so that He alone should stand first in everything.
Matthew 10:2
Here are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, who was named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James the son of Zebedee and his brother John,
Acts 2:47
constantly praising God and always having the favor of all the people. And every day the Lord continued to add to them the people who were being saved.
Revelation 21:14
The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the Lamb's twelve apostles.
Matthew 11:23
And you, Capernaum, are you to be exalted to heaven? No, you belong to the regions of the dead! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued until today.
Matthew 18:17
And if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a heathen and as a tax-collector.
John 10:27-30
My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me,
Acts 8:1
Saul heartily approved of his being put to death. So on that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all of them, except the apostles, were scattered over Judea and Samaria.
Romans 8:33-39
Who can bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who declared them in right standing;
1 Corinthians 3:9-11
for we belong to God as His fellow-workers; you belong to God as His field to be tilled, as His building to be built.
1 Corinthians 15:55
O Death, where is your victory now? O Death, where is your sting?"
Galatians 2:9
and because they recognized the favor God had shown me, James, Cephas, and John, the so-called pillar apostles, gave Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, with the understanding that we should go to the heathen and they to the Jews.
Ephesians 3:10
so that the many phases of God's wisdom may now through the church be made known to the rulers and authorities in heaven,
Ephesians 5:25-27
You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,
Ephesians 5:32
This is a great secret; I mean this about Christ and the church.
1 Timothy 3:5
(if a man does not know how to manage his own house, how can he take care of a church of God?).
1 Timothy 3:15
so that, if I am detained, you may know how people ought to conduct themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
Hebrews 3:3-4
For just as the man who builds a house has greater glory than the house, by just so much is Jesus judged to be worthy of greater glory than Moses.
Hebrews 12:28
Let us, therefore, be thankful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and in this way continue to serve God acceptably in reverence and fear;
Revelation 11:15
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and loud voices were heard in heaven, saying, "The sovereignty of the world has come into the possession of our Lord and His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever."
Revelation 21:1-4
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.