And I also say unto thee, as thou art called Peter, so upon this rock, which thou hast confessed, will I build my church, and the gates of death shall not prevail against it.

And if he disregard them, tell it to the church: but if he disregard the church too, let him be unto thee as an heathen and a publican.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

And Saul was well pleased with his execution. For at that time there was a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all dispersed through the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

But Saul made havock of the church, entring into the houses, and dragging out men and women, committed them to prison.

And the report of these things came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem; and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

And they assembled in the church a whole year, and taught much people: and the disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

About that time Herod the king exerted his power to distress some of the church.

Peter was therefore kept in custody: but incessant prayer was made to God for him by the church.

Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers, as Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenean, and Manaen who had been educated with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul;

And when they had appointed them elders in every church, praying and fasting, they recommended them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.

And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they related what God had done by them, and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

They therefore, being brought forward on their way by the church, passed through Phenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles: and they gave great joy to all the brethren.

And when they came to Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and by the apostles and elders, and they told them all that God had done by them.

Then it seemed good to the apostles, and elders, and the whole church, to send men chose from among themselves to Antioch along with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas sirnamed Barsabas, and Silas; leading men among the brethren:

and landing at Cesarea, went up to Jerusalem, and after he had saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.

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

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the holy Spirit hath appointed you bishops, to feed the church of God, which He purchased with his own blood.

I recommend to you Phebe, our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea:

and the church in their house. Salute my beloved Epenetus, who is the first-fruits of Achaia unto Christ.

Gaius my host, and that of the whole church saluteth you. Erastus, the chamberlain of the city, and our brother Quartus saluteth you.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth,

For this end have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways in Christ, how I teach every where in every church.

Therefore if ye have controversies about the things of this life, do ye set them to judge, who are despised by the church?

Behave inoffensively both to the Jews, and to the Greeks, and to the church of God.

For first when ye come together in the church, I hear there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.

What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the church of God, and shame those that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

And God hath placed you accordingly in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miraculous powers, then gifts of healing, helps, governments, and various kinds of tongues.

He, that speaketh in an unknown tongue, edifieth himself: but he, that prophesieth, edifieth the church.

I could wish that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edification.

So ye also, since ye are so desirous of spiritual gifts, seek to abound in them to the edification of the church.

If then the whole church be come together and all speak in unknown tongues, and there come in illiterate persons, or infidels, will they not say that ye are mad?

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 in their house, salute you in the Lord with much affection:

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

For ye have heard of my conversation formerly in Judaism, that I outragiously persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste:

and knowing the grace which was given to me; James, and Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars of the church, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go to the gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

and hath put all things under his feet, and given Him to be head over all things to the church;

that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly regions;

to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus, throughout all the generations of eternal ages. Amen.

for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and the saviour of that body.

As the church then is subject to Christ, so also should wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave up Himself for it:

that He might prepare it for Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should be holy and unblameable.

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord also doth the church:

This mystery is great: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.

as to zeal persecuting the church, as to the righteousness of the law blameless: but those things,

And ye Philippians know, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I was departing from Macedonia, no church communicated to me on the score of giving and receiving, but you only.

And He is the head of the body, which is the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things He might have the pre-eminence.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up what is behind of the afflictions of 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 amongst you, cause it to be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; that ye may also read that from Laodicea.

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ;

(for if any one know not how to govern his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

But if I should be retarded, that thou mayst know how thou oughtest to behave in the house of God, the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

And if any believer have relations widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be burdened; that it may relieve those that are indeed widows and desolate.

and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the church in thine house,

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

Is any sick among you? 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, chosen together with you saluteth you, and so doth Marcus my son.

who have borne witness to thy love before the church: whom thou wilt do well in forwarding, as is worthy of God.

I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, who affects the pre-eminence among them, doth not receive us.

Therefore when I come, I will remember his deeds, prating against us with wicked words: and not content with these, he neither receiveth the brethren himself, nor suffers those that would; and casteth them out of the church.

To the angel of the church at Ephesus write, These things saith He that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;

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

And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write, These things saith He, who hath the sharp two-edged sword;

And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, These things saith the Son of God, who hath eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet like fine brass; I know thy works,

And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, These things saith He that hath the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead:

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These things saith the holy One, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, He that openeth and no one shutteth, and shutteth and no one openeth:

And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: