27 Bible Verses about Attending Church

not forsaking our own congregation as some are in the habit of [doing], but exhorting [others], and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

Obey your guides and be in subjection; for they watch for your souls as having to give an account, that they may do this with joy and not with grief; for this is unprofitable for you.

and they attended constantly to the teaching and companionship of the apostles, the breaking of bread and the prayers.

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.

Let the elders who rule well be accounted worthy of a double compensation, especially those who labor in word and teaching.

Remember your guides who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the end of their life follow the faith.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of its own solution. For prophecy was never brought by the will of man, but moved by the Holy Spirit men spoke from God,

And we beseech you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love on account of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.

for where two or three are assembled together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

and they attended constantly to the teaching and companionship of the apostles, the breaking of bread and the prayers. And fear was on every soul, and many prodigies and miracles were performed by the apostles. And all who believed were together and had all things common;read more.
and they sold their possessions and estates, and distributed them to all as any one had need; and continuing day by day with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they partook of food with gladness and simplicity of mind, praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added the saved, day by day, to the assembly [church].

If therefore there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort in love, if any participation of the Spirit, if any affections and compassions,

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.

For first, when you come together in an assembly, I hear that there are divisions among you, and some part of it I believe.

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

And on the first day of the week, we being assembled to break bread, Paul preached to them, being about to depart on the next day, and continued his discourse till midnight;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching with all wisdom, and admonishing one another, with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God,

for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ,

God is faithful by whom you are called into the society of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

And having preached the good news to that city, and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch, confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God. And having appointed them elders in every church, and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Prove all things, hold fast the good; abstain from every form of evil.

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,

The elders among you I exhort, who am a co-elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed; feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind, not as having a lordship over God's inheritance but being examples to the flock;read more.
and when the chief shepherd shall appear, you shall receive an unfading crown of glory.

And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ,

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

I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the call with which you were called, with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love, using diligence to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.read more.
There is one body, and one spirit, as you also are called in one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. And to each one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he says, When he ascended on high, he took captivity captive, and gave gifts to men. But this, that he ascended, what is it but that he first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended above all heavens, that he might fill all [places]. And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we may be no longer children, driven about like waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men, and the craftiness of deceitful wiles, but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ; by whom all the body being joined together and compacted by the supply of every joint, according to the proportionate operation of every part, makes increase of the body to the edification of itself in love.

For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might regulate things which are deficient, and appoint elders in every city, as I charged you,