25 Bible Verses about The Church Universal

And I also say to you, that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My assembly, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

to the general festal throng, and assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous ones made perfect;

and He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as Head over all things to the assembly,

because a husband is head of the wife, as Christ also is Head of the assembly; Himself the Savior of the body.

And He is the Head of the body, the assembly; Who is the Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that in all things He may be preeminent;

Now I rejoice in my sufferings in your behalf, and fill up in turn the deficiencies of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh for the sake of His body, which is the assembly;

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the assembly, and delivered Himself up for it,

for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as also Christ the assembly;

This mystery is great; but I am speaking of Christ and of the assembly.

Take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit appointed you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

in order that now might be made known to the principalities and authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

And God, indeed, set some in the assembly: first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; after that, miracles; then, gifts of healings, helps, governments, various kinds of tongues.

to Him be the glory in the assembly, and in Christ Jesus, unto all generations of the age of the ages. Amen.

that He might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of the water in the word,

that He might present to Himself the assembly, glorious, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and without blemish.

but, if I delay, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in a house of God, which, indeed, is an assembly of the living God, a pillar and basis of the truth,

And great fear came upon the whole assembly, and upon all who heard these things.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

For ye heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism; that, beyond measure, I was persecuting the assembly of God, and laying it waste;

as to zeal, persecuting the assembly: as to the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

But Saul was laying waste the assembly, entering house after house; and, dragging men and women, was committing them to prison.

The assembly, therefore, throughout the whole of Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, was having peace, being built up; and, walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the consolation of the Holy Spirit, was being multiplied.

Peter, therefore, was kept in the prison; but prayer was being earnestly made by the assembly to God in his behalf.

What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the assembly of God, and put to shame those who have them not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews or Greeks, or to the assembly of God: