13 Bible Verses about Each Local Church

And having appointed elders for them in every congregation, having prayed with fasting, they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.

Is any man weak among you? Let him summon the elders of the congregation, and let them pray near him, having anointed him with olive oil in the name of the Lord.

(but if any man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of a congregation of God?),

For indeed first, when ye come together in a congregation, I hear divisions are present among you, and I partly believe it.

Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but more that ye may prophesy. For greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the congregation may receive edification.

If therefore the whole congregation comes together in the same place, and all speak in tongues, and unlearned or unbelieving men come in, will they not say that ye are mad?

He who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but he who prophesies builds up the congregation.

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

Yet in an assembly I would rather speak five words with my intellect, so that I might also make others understand, than countless words in a tongue.

And if they want to learn anything, let them question their own husbands at home, for it is an ugly thing for women to speak in an assembly.

If any believing man or believing woman has widows, let them relieve them, and let not the congregation be burdened, so that it may relieve the real widows.

who testified about thy love in sight of the congregation, whom thou will do well having helped send on their way worthily of God.

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.