And I also say to thee, that thou are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

And if he is heedless of them, speak to the church. But if he is also heedless of the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the tax collector.

praising God, and having favor with the whole populace. And the Lord was adding to the church daily those being saved.

And great fear developed in the whole church, and in all who heard these things.

And Saul was approving the killing of him. And on that day there developed a great persecution against the church at Jerusalem. And they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

But Saul was ravaging the church, entering from house to house. Dragging both men and women, he gave them over to prison.

And the word about them was heard in the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they dispatched Barnabas to pass through as far as Antioch,

Now about that time Herod the king threw on hands to harm some of those from the church.

Indeed therefore Peter was kept in the prison, but fervent prayer was being made by the church to God for him.

And after arriving in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders. And they reported as many things as God did with them.

And after coming down to Caesarea, having gone up and greeted the church, he went down to Antioch.

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit placed you guardians, to tend the church of the Lord and God, which he purchased by his own blood.

Indeed therefore whenever ye have mundane legal disputes, men who are disdained by the church, these ye seat to judge.

Become ye inoffensive both to Jews and to Greeks, and to the church of God,

For have ye no houses to eat and to drink in? Or do ye disparage the church of God, and humiliate those not having? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

And in the church God has placed men who are first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

So also ye, since ye are zealots of spirits, seek so that ye may excel for the edification of the church.

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

For ye heard of my former behavior in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God to extraordinariness, and ravaged it.

And he subordinated all things under his feet, and appointed him head over all things for the church,

So that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principal offices and the positions of authority in the heavenly things, through the church,

to him is the glory in the church in Christ Jesus for all generations of the age of the ages. Truly.

Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body.

But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.

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

so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished.

For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ the church,

This mystery is great, but I speak for Christ and for the church.

regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless.

And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become preeminent in all things.

I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and make complete in my flesh things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ for his body, which is the church.