praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added the saved, day by day, to the assembly [church].

And great fear was on all the assembly [church], and on all that heard of these things.

And Saul consented to his death. And at that time there was a great persecution of the church at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad through the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

But Saul persecuted the church, and going from house to house, seizing men and women, committed them to prison.

Then had the church peace in all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and being built up, and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

And a report concerning them was brought to the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to go as far as Antioch;

and found and brought him to Antioch. And he was with them, and they met a whole year with the church and taught a great multitude; and the disciples first took the name of Christians at Antioch.

AND at that time Herod the king put forth his hands to injure some of the church.

Peter therefore was kept by the guard; but prayer was made incessantly by the church to God for him.

And there were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch; Barnabas and Simeon called Niger [the black], and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen the foster brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

And having appointed them elders in every church, and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

And having arrived, and assembled the church, they reported what God had done with them, and that he had opened the door of faith to the gentiles.

They, therefore, being sent forward by the church, went to Phenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of the gentiles, and caused great joy to all the brothers.

And when they came to Jerusalem they were received by the church, and the apostles, and the elders, and related what things God had done with them.

Then it seemed good to the apostles and elders, with all the assembly [the church], to send delegates from themselves to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,

and coming down to Caesarea, and going up and saluting the church, he went down to Antioch;

And from Miletus sending to Ephesus he called for the elders of the church.

Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his blood.

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

Gaius my entertainer, and the entertainer of all the church, salutes you. Erastus the treasurer of the city and Quartus the brother salute you.

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

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

If then you have courts for the business of this life, do you constitute them of the most abject in the church?

Be without offense both to Jews and Greeks, and the church of God,

Have you not [food] to eat and drink at your houses? or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who have not [houses]? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you? In this I commend you not.

And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then powers, then gifts of performing cures, aids, governments, different tongues.

So also you, since you are earnestly desirous of spirits [spiritual gifts], seek to abound for the edification of the church.

If, therefore, the whole church comes together, and all speak with tongues, and there come in the unlearned and unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?

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

The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the assembly [church] at their house.

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

For you heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism, that I greatly persecuted the church of God and destroyed it;

and put all things in subjection under his feet, and made him head over all things to the church,

that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly [worlds] should be made known, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God,

to him be the glory in the church in Jesus Christ to all generations, for ever and ever; amen.

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

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

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

that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy and blameless.

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

This is a great mystery; but I speak of Christ and the church.

as to zeal persecuting the church, as to righteousness by the law being blameless.

And you know also, Philippians, that at the beginning of the gospel, when I went out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only;

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

Now I rejoice in sufferings for you, and supply the deficiencies of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church,

And when this letter has been read with you, cause that it be also read by the church of the Laodiceans; and do you also read that from Laodicea.

PAUL and Sylvanus [Silas] and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to you and peace.

PAUL and Silvanus [Silas] and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

ruling well his own house, having his children in subjection with all dignity,??5 but if any one knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God???6 not a novice, lest being inflated with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

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 foundation of the truth.

If any faithful man or faithful woman has widows, let them give them relief, and let not the church be burdened, that it may be able to relieve those really widows.

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

if any one is sick among you, let him send for the elders of the church, and let them pray for him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

The co-elect [church] at Babylon salutes you, and Mark my son.

who testified of your love before the church, whom you will do well to send forward worthily of God.

I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes desiring the pre-eminence does not receive us.

Therefore if I come I will remember his works which he performs, prating against us with evil words, and not being satisfied, in addition to these [things] he does not receive the brothers, and forbids and casts out of the church those wishing to do it.

To the angel of the church in Ephesus write, These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who 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 lived,

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

And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, These things says the Son of God, he that 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 to live, and are dead.

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These things says the Holy One, the True, he that has the key of David, he that opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open,

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,