25 Bible Verses about The Church Universal

And I, yes I, tell you, your name from now on is to be Peter, Rock, and on a massive rock like this I will build my church, and the powers of the underworld shall never overthrow it.

to the festal gathering and assembly of God's firstborn sons enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a Judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men who have attained perfection,

And so He has put all things under His feet and made Him the supreme Head of the church,

for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the Head of the church, His body, and Saviour of it.

Yes, He is the Head of the church as His body. For He is the beginning, the first-born among the dead, so that He alone should stand first in everything.

I am now glad to be suffering for you, and in my own person I am filling in what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for His body, that is, the church.

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,

for no one ever hates his own physical person, but he feeds and fosters it, just as Christ does the church;

This is a great secret; I mean this about Christ and the church.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, so as to continue to be shepherds of the church of God, which He bought with His own blood.

so that the many phases of God's wisdom may now through the church be made known to the rulers and authorities in heaven,

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as prophets, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then people with power to cure the sick, helpers, managers, ecstatic speakers.

be glory in the church and through Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

to consecrate her, after cleansing her through His word, as pictured in the water bath,

that He might present the church to Himself as a splendid bride without a blot or wrinkle or anything like it, but to be consecrated and faultless.

so that, if I am detained, you may know how people ought to conduct themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

So a strange awe seized the whole church and everybody who heard it.

For I belong to the lowest rank of the apostles, and am not fit to bear the title apostle, because I once persecuted the church of God.

You have heard, indeed, of my former conduct as an adherent of the Jewish religion, how I kept on furiously persecuting the church of God, and tried to destroy it,

by the standard set by zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and measured by the uprightness reached by keeping the law, I was faultless.

But Saul continued to harass the church, and by going from house to house and dragging off men and women he continued to put them into prison.

So the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria enjoyed peace, and as it continued to be built up spiritually and to live in reverence for the Lord, it continued to increase in numbers through the encouragement that the Holy Spirit gave.

So Peter was being kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God for him was persistently made by the church.

It is not that you have no houses to eat and drink in, is it? Or, are you trying to show your contempt for the church of God and trying to humiliate those who have no houses? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? No, I cannot praise you for this.

Stop being stumbling blocks to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,