And I say to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church: and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.

But if he refuse to hear them, tell it to the church; and if he also refuse to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen man and a publican.

praising God, and being in favor with all the people. And the Lord added the saved daily to the Church.

And great fear came on all the church, and on all that heard these things.

And at that time there was a great persecution against the church that was in Jerusalem; and they were all dispersed throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

But Saul attempted to destroy the church; entering every house, and dragging men and women, he delivered them up to prison.

And the report concerning them came to the ears of the church that was in Jerusalem; and they sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch.

and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that they met together in the church for a whole year, and taught a great multitude; and the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.

At that time Herod the king undertook to afflict some of the church.

Therefore, Peter was kept in prison; but fervent prayer to God was made for him by the church.

Now there were certain prophets and teachers in the church that was at Antioch; Barnabas, and Simeon, who is called Niger, and Lucius of Gyrene, and Manaen, who was brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.

And having come and called together the church, they reported all that God had done with them, and that he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

Being, therefore, con ducted on their journey by the church, they passed through Phenicia and Samaria, making known the conversion of the Gentiles; and they gave great joy to all the brethren.

When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and the apostles and elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.

Then it pleased the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to send to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas, chosen men from among themselves; Judas, who was surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren;

and having landed at Caesarea, and gone up and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.

Therefore, take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, that you be shepherds to the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church that is in Cenchrea,

and salute the church that is in their house. Salute Epenetus my beloved, who is the first fruits of Asia to Christ.

Gains, my host, and the host of the whole church, salutes you. Erastus the treasurer of the city, and Quartus, my brother, salute you.

to the church of God which is in Corinth, to the sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

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

If, then, you have controversies pertaining to things of this life, set them to judge who are the least esteemed in the church.

Give no occasion for stumbling, either to the Jews, or to the Greeks, or to the church of God;

For, in the first place, when you come together in the church, I hear that there are schisms among you, and I partly believe it:

What, have you not houses in which to eat and drink? or do you despise the church of God, and put those to shame who have nothing to eat? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

And God has placed some in the church, first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then mighty deeds; then gifts of healing; helps, governments, kinds of tongues.

He that speaks in an unknown tongue, edifies himself; but he that prophesies, edifies the church.

I am willing, indeed, that you should all speak in tongues, but rather that you should prophesy; for greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, in order that the church may receive instruction.

So, also, do you, since you greatly desire spiritual gifts, seek to excel to the building up of the church.

Yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

If, then, the whole church come together into the same place, and all speak in tongues, and there come in unlearned men, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?

But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church: but let him speak to himself, and to God.

For I am the least of the apostles, and I am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

The churches of Asia salute you: Aquila and Priscilla, with the church that is in their house, send you many salutations in the Lord.

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy my brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia:

For you have heard of my former mode of life in Judaism, that I greatly persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste;

and subjected all things under his feet, and made him head over all things for the church,

to the end that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known, through the church, to the principalities and authorities in the heavenly regions,

to him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus, through out all the generations of the age of ages. Amen.

for the husband is the head of the wife, as the Christ also is the head of the church; and he is the savior of the body.

But as the church is subject to the Christ, so, also, let the wives be subject to their own husbands in every thing.

Husbands, love your wives, as the Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,

in order that he might present it to himself a glorious church, having neither stain, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Christ the church:

Great is this mystery; but I speak of Christ and of the church.

as it respects zeal, persecuting the church; as it respects righteousness which is by law, blameless.

Now you Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church contributed to me so that I kept an account of giving and receiving, but you only.

and he is the head of the body, the church: and he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might be preeminent;

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up what remains of my sufferings for Christ in my flesh for the sake of his body, which is the church,

Salute the brethren in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church that is in his house.

And when this letter has been read among you, cause that it be read in the church of the Laodiceans also; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea;

PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ:

for if a man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?

but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

If any believing man or woman has widows, let him or her relieve them, and let not the church be burdened, that it may relieve those who are widows indeed.

and to our beloved Apphia, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the church that is in your house:

to the general assembly and church of the first-born, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

Is any one among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil, in the name of the Lord.

The church in Babylon, elected together with you, salutes you, and so does Marcus my son.

who have testified to your love before the church: if you conduct these on their journey, in a manner worthy of God, you will do well:

I wrote to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not.

Therefore, if I come, I will remember his works which he does, prating against us with malicious words: and not content with these things, he does not himself receive the brethren, but both for bids those who are willing, and casts them out of the church.

To the angel of the church in Ephesus, write: These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, that walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna, write: These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and is alive:

And to the angel of the church in Pergamos, write: These things says he that has the sharp, two-edged sword;

And to the angel of the church in Thyatira, write: These things, says the Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet like fine brass;

And to the angel of the church in Sardis, write: These things says he that has the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know your works, that you have a name, that you live, and are dead.

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write: These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens and no man shuts, and shuts and no man opens;

And to the angel of the church in Laodicea, write: These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;