Matthew 16:18
Now I tell you, Peter is your name and on this rock I will build my church; the powers of Hades shall not succeed against it.
John 1:42
He took him to Jesus; Jesus gazed at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John? Your name is to be Cephas" (meaning 'Peter' or 'rock').
Ephesians 2:19-22
Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household,
Colossians 1:18
Also, he is the head of the Body, that is, of the church, in virtue of his primacy as the first to be born from the dead ??that gives him pre-eminence over all.
Matthew 10:2
These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedaeus and John his brother,
Acts 2:47
praising God and looked on with favour by all the people. Meantime the Lord added the saved daily to their number.
Revelation 21:14
And the wall of the City has twelve foundation-stones, bearing the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Matthew 11:23
And you, O Capharnahum! Exalted to heaven? No, you will sink to Hades! ??for if the miracles performed in you had been performed in Sodom, Sodom would have lasted to this day.
Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.
John 10:27-30
My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me;
Acts 8:1
(Saul quite approved of his murder.) That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone, with the exception of the apostles, was scattered over Judaea and Samaria.
Romans 8:33-39
Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits,
1 Corinthians 3:9-11
We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.
1 Corinthians 15:55
O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting?
Galatians 2:9
and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.
Ephesians 5:25-27
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Ephesians 5:32
This is a profound symbol, I mean as regards Christ and the church.
1 Timothy 3:5
(if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);
1 Timothy 3:15
in case I am detained, to let you see how people ought to behave within the household of God; it is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the Truth.
Hebrews 3:3-4
Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself.
Hebrews 12:28
Therefore let us render thanks that we get an unshaken realm; and in this way let us worship God acceptably ??29 but with godly fear and awe, for our God is indeed a consuming fire.
Revelation 11:15
Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices followed in heaven, crying, "The rule of the world has passed to our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever."
Revelation 21:1-4
Then I saw the new heaven and the new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; and the sea is no more.