And I also say to you, that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My assembly, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

And, if he disregard them, tell it to the assembly; and, if he disregard the assembly also, let him be to you as the gentile and the tax-collector.

Jesus answered, "I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews assemble together; and in secret I spake nothing.

And great fear came upon the whole assembly, and upon all who heard these things.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spake to him on mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us:

And Saul was approving of his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the assembly which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the countries of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

But Saul was laying waste the assembly, entering house after house; and, dragging men and women, was committing them to prison.

The assembly, therefore, throughout the whole of Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, was having peace, being built up; and, walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the consolation of the Holy Spirit, was being multiplied.

And the report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem; and they sent forth Barnabas as far as Antioch;

and, having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass that, even for a whole year, they met together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude; and that the disciples got the name "Christian" first in Antioch.

Now about that time Herod the king put forth his bands to harm some of the assembly.

Peter, therefore, was kept in the prison; but prayer was being earnestly made by the assembly to God in his behalf.

Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas and Symeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenean, and Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

And, having appointed elders for them in every assembly; and, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord on Whom they had believed.

And, having arrived, and having gathered together the assembly, they were rehearsing as many things as God did with them, and that He opened to the gentiles a door of faith.

They, therefore, having been sent forward by the assembly, went through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the gentiles; and they were causing great joy to all the brethren.

And, having come to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the assembly and apostles and elders; and they rehearsed as many things as God wrought with them.

Then it seemed good to the apostles and elders, with the whole assembly, to send men, chosen from themselves, to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas who is surnamed Barsabas, and Silas??eading men among the brethren;

and, landing at Cesarea, going up and saluting the assembly, he went down to Antioch.

Some, therefore, were crying one thing, and some another; for the assembly had become confused, and the greater part knew not for what cause they had come together.

But, if ye seek anything about other matters, it shall be determined in the lawful assembly.

And, having thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

And, having sent from Miletus to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the assembly.

Take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit appointed you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

And, on the morrow, wishing to know the certainty, wherefore he was accused by the Jews, he released him, and gave orders that the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin should assemble together; and, bringing Paul down, he set him among them.

I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the assembly which is in Cenchrea;

and salute the assembly that is in her house. Salute Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Asia unto Christ.

Gaius my host, and of the whole assembly, salutes you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, salutes you, and Quartus the brother.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called saints, with all, in every place, who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ??heir Lord and ours:

For this cause, I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

If, then, ye have tribunals pertaining to this life, do ye set those to judge who are set at nought in the assembly?

Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews or Greeks, or to the assembly of God:

For, first, when ye come together in an assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it;

When, therefore, ye assemble yourselves together, it is not to eat a Supper of the Lord;

What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the assembly of God, and put to shame those who have them not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

And God, indeed, set some in the assembly: first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; after that, miracles; then, gifts of healings, helps, governments, various kinds of tongues.

He that speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies the assembly.

Now I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy; and greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the assembly may receive edifying.

So also ye, since ye are eager for spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound in them with a view to the edification of the assembly.

but in an assembly I prefer to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

If, therefore, the whole assembly comes together, and all are speaking with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?

but, if there is no interpreter, let him keep silence in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.

And, if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for a wife to speak in an assembly.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

The assemblies of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the assembly meeting at their house.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

For ye heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism; that, beyond measure, I was persecuting the assembly of God, and laying it waste;

and He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as Head over all things to the assembly,

in order that now might be made known to the principalities and authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

to Him be the glory in the assembly, and in Christ Jesus, unto all generations of the age of the ages. Amen.

because a husband is head of the wife, as Christ also is Head of the assembly; Himself the Savior of the body.

But, as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also let the women be to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the assembly, and delivered Himself up for it,

that He might present to Himself the assembly, glorious, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and without blemish.

for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as also Christ the assembly;

This mystery is great; but I am speaking of Christ and of the assembly.

as to zeal, persecuting the assembly: as to the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

And know ye also, Philippians, that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no assembly had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving, but ye only;

And He is the Head of the body, the assembly; Who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that in all things He may be preeminent;

Now I rejoice in my sufferings in your behalf, and fill up in turn the deficiencies of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh for the sake of His body, which is the assembly;

Salute the brethren in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly in her house.

And, when the letter may be read among you, cause that it be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that ye also read the one from Laodicea.

Paul, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you, and peace.

Paul, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians, in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

(but, if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how will he take care of an assembly of God?);

but, if I delay, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in a house of God, which, indeed, is an assembly of the living God, a pillar and basis of the truth,

If any believing woman has widows, let her relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, in order that it may relieve those who are really widows.

and to Apphia, the sister, and to Archippus, our fellow-soldier, and to the assembly in your house:

saying, "I will declare Thy name to my brethren; in the midst of an assembly will I sing praise to Thee."

to the general festal throng, and assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous ones made perfect;

Is anyone among you sick? let him call for the elders of the assembly; and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord;

The assembly in Babylon, elected with you, and Mark my son, salute you.

who testified to your love before the assembly; whom sending forward worthily of God, you will do well;

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

On this account, if I come, I will remember his works which he is doing, prating against us with evil words; and not content with these things, he neither himself receives the brethren, and those wishing to do so he forbids, and casts them out of the assembly.

"To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write these things," saith He Who holdeth the seven stars in His right hand, He Who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:

"And to the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write these things," saith the First and the Last, Who became dead, and lived:

"And to the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write these things," saith He Who hath the sharp, two-edged sword:

"And to the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write these things." saith the Son of God, Who hath His eyes as a flame of fire, and His feet like burnished brass:

"And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write these things," saith He Who hath the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your works, that you have a name that you are living, and you are dead.

"And to the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write these things," saith He Who is holy, He Who is true, He Who hath the key of David, He Who openeth, and no one shall shut; and shutteth, and no one opens:

"And to the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write these things," saith the Amen, the Faithful and the True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: