21 Bible Verses about organization

which God has placed in the church, first apostles, next prophets, then teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, assistants, governours, interpreters of languages.

for God is not the God of confusion, but of peace, in all christian assemblies.

let all things be done with decency, and without disorder.

you little consider it is our interest, that one man should die for the people, to prevent the destruction of the whole nation.

but the advocate, the holy spirit, whom the father will send for my sake, he will explain every thing to you, and make you remember, all that I have told you.

Being one body, acted by one spirit, since you all have but one expectation in view;

but above all, let your mutual benevolence be intense, for benevolence cancels a multitude of offences.

if you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world does hate you.

and if Christ be in you, tho' the body is mortal in consequence of sin; the spirit gives life by justification.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may have a perfect union, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

for tho' I am absent in person, yet I am present with you in my mind, and am glad to perceive the regularily of your affairs, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

therefore, let no one glory in men: for all are yours:

do not ye yet conceive, that whatever enters at the mouth, passes to the belly, and is discharged downwards?

and ye shall be brought before governors and kings upon my account, to bear testimony of me to them and the rest of the Gentiles.

He that aspires to be a bishop, desires an office that is honourable.

that the manifold wisdom of God, in ordering his heavenly kingdom, might by his church be now made known, to princes and magistrates,

and I will give you the keys of the gospel-kingdom: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.

he receives no service from their officiousness: he is self-sufficient: it is he that gives to all their life and breath and every thing they have.

and now I shall be no more in the world, but they will be in the world, when I am come to thee. holy father keep them by that authority, with which thou hast invested me, that they may be one, as we are.

'tis for this end I have sent you Timothy, who is my dear disciple, and a faithful christian, who will inform you how I behave my self in every church where I teach the gospel of Christ.

About that time, Jesus retired to a mountain to pray, and spent the whole night in an oratory.