38 Bible Verses about christianity

and found him and brought him to Antioch. The result was that for a whole year they met with the church, and taught large numbers of people, and it was at Antioch that the disciples first came to be known as Christians.

But you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

but if a man suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed of it, but must do honor to God through that name.

By this they will all know that you are my disciples??y your love for one another."

The believers all shared everything they had with one another,

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of uprightness than after knowing it to have turned their backs upon the sacred command with which they had been intrusted.

Dear children, let us love not with words or lips only but in reality and truth.

In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine.

Then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

and if Christ was not raised, there is nothing in our message; there is nothing in our faith either,

Everyone ought to remain in the station in which he was called.

I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. Why, you are not ready for it now,

so, many as we are, we form one body through union with Christ, and we are individually parts of one another.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.

For if I was out of my senses, as they say, it was between God and me; and if I am in my right mind, it is for your good.

He must not be a new convert, or he may grow conceited and incur criticism from slanderous people.

and forms of service vary, but it is the same Lord who is served,

There is but one body and one Spirit, just as there is but one hope that belongs to the summons you received.

Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.

For I am not ashamed of the good news, for it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who has faith, of the Jew first and then of the Greek.

Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.

None of us lives only to himself, and none of us dies only to himself;

For, as I see it, living means Christ and dying something even better.

You have heard of my former conduct when I was attached to the Jewish religion??ow furiously I used to persecute the church of God and ravage it,

For there are many who live, as I have often told you, and tell you now with tears, like enemies of the cross of Christ.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

So, for my part, brothers, I could not treat you as spiritual persons; I had to treat you just as creatures of flesh and blood, as babies in Christian living.

As it is, since you are tepid and neither cold nor hot, I am going to spit you out of my mouth!

If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ was not raised,

We are made fools of, for the sake of Christ, while you are men of sense, through being united with him. We are weak, you are strong. You are distinguished, we are despised.

The Jews there were more high-minded than those at Thessalonica, and received the message with great eagerness and studied the Scriptures every day, to find out whether it was true.

You who are slaves, obey your earthly masters, in reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would the Christ,

Remember me to all my fellow-Christians. The brothers who are with me wish to be remembered to you.

For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not your part to judge those who are inside the church,

For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ.

What I mean is this, that one of you says, "I am a follower of Paul," another, "And I, of Apollos," another, "And I, of Cephas," and another, "And I, of Christ!"

The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light.