12 Bible Verses about Each Local Church

And having appointed them elders in every church, and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

if any one is sick among you, let him send for the elders of the church, and let them pray for him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

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

I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that you should prophesy; and he that prophesies is greater than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the assembly may receive edification.

If, therefore, the whole church comes together, and all speak with tongues, and there come in the unlearned and unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad?

He that speaks with a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies an assembly.

So also you, since you are earnestly desirous of spirits [spiritual gifts], seek to abound for the edification of the church.

but in an assembly I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may also teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

But if they wish to learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in an assembly.

If any faithful man or faithful woman has widows, let them give them relief, and let not the church be burdened, that it may be able to relieve those really widows.

who testified of your love before the church, whom you will do well to send forward worthily of God.

and if he will not hear them, tell the assembly; and if he will not hear the assembly, let him be to you as a gentile and a publican.