62 Bible Verses about The church

The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

and in the midst of the lampstands one like a Son of Man, clothed with a robe down to the feet and girded round his chest with a golden band.

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

And I tell you, that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,

For no other foundation can any one lay than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

As you come to him, the living Stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in the sight of God you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves, but he entered the holy place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which he purchased with the blood of his Own.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.

Therefore, he who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.

that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself in all her glory, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and blameless.

And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Saul was consenting to his death. And on that day a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the region of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. Devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him. But Saul began ravaging the church, and, entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judea, for you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to all men,

for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great number of people were brought to the Lord.

And all the more believers in the Lord, multitudes of men and women, were constantly added to their number,

because you will not abandon my soul to hades, nor let your Holy One see decay.

And he gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of service, for the building up of the body of Christ;

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share for the sake of his body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Now, brethren, we want you to know about the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia,

And he put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things for the church,

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is himself the Savior.

that he might present the church to himself in all her glory, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and blameless.

Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit to God.

As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject to their husbands in everything.

For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one bodywhether Jews or Greeks, slaves or freeand we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? No, I will not.

If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.

It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean"; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.

so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.

if I am delayed, you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you her greetings, and so does my son Mark.

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which he purchased with the blood of his Own.

if I am delayed, you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.