'Church of God' in the Bible

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, as well as to all who, wherever they may be, invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord no less than ours:

Put no stumbling-block in the way of Jews or Greeks or the church of God.

What! have you no houses to eat and drink in? Do you think you can show disrespect to the church of God and put the poor to shame? What can I say to you? Commend you? Not for this.

For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.

PAUL an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and brother Timotheus, to the church of God at Corinth as well as to all the saints throughout the whole of Achaia:

You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it,

(if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);