13 Bible Verses about Each Local Church

and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

(and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe it,

and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

he who is speaking in an unknown tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;

so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an unknown tongue.

and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,

And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.