13 Bible Verses about Each Local Church

And when they had ordained them elders by election in every congregation, after they had prayed and fasted, they commended them to God on whom they believed.

If any be diseased among you, let him call for the elders of the congregation, and let them pray over him, and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord:

For if a man cannot rule his own house, how shall he care for the congregation of God?

First of all, when ye come together in the congregation, I hear that there is dissension among you: And I partly believe it.

I would 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 expound it also, that the congregation may have edifying.

If therefore when all the congregation is come together, and all speak with tongues, there come in they that are unlearned, or they which believe not: will they not say that ye are out of your wits?

He that speaketh with tongues, profiteth himself: he that prophesieth, edifieth the congregation.

Even so ye - forasmuch as ye covet spiritual gifts - seek that ye may have plenty unto the edifying of the congregation.

Yet had I rather, in the congregation, to speak five words with my mind to the information of others, rather than ten thousand words with the tongue.

If they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame for women to speak in the congregation.

And if any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them minister unto them, and let not the congregation be charged: that it may have sufficient for them that are widows indeed.

which bare witness of thy love before all the congregation. Which brethren, when thou bringest forwards on their journey - as it beseemeth God - thou shalt do well:

If he hear not them, tell it unto the congregation: if he hear not the congregation, take him as a heathen man, and as a publican.