61 Bible Verses about The church

The secret meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold lampstands is this: The seven stars are the guardian angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

and among the lampstands a being like a man, wearing a long robe, with a gold belt around his breast.

Because there is one loaf, we, many as we are, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.

There is no room for "Jew" and "Greek"; there is no room for "slave" and "freeman"; there is no room for "male" and "female"; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

so, many as we are, we form one body through union with Christ, and we are individually parts of one another.

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

But I tell you, your name is Peter, a rock, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not subdue it.

You are built upon the apostles and prophets as your foundation, and Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone.

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

Come to him, as to a living stone rejected by men, but chosen and prized in the sight of God, and build yourselves up as living stones into a spiritual house for a consecrated priesthood, so as to offer spiritual sacrifices that through Jesus Christ will be acceptable to God.

taking with him no blood of goats and calves, but his own, and secured our permanent deliverance.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,

Anyone who speaks ecstatically does himself good, but the inspired preacher does a congregation good.

Therefore, the man who can speak ecstatically should pray for the power to explain what he says.

to consecrate her, after cleansing her with the bath in water through her confession of him, in order to bring the church to himself in all her beauty, without a flaw or a wrinkle or anything of the kind, but to be consecrated and faultless.

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,

And Saul entirely approved of his being put to death. A great persecution of the church in Jerusalem broke out that day, and they were all scattered over Judea and Samaria except the apostles. Some pious men buried Stephen and loudly lamented him. But Saul harassed the church. He went into one house after another, and dragging out men and women, put them in prison.

For you, brothers, followed the example of God's churches in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus, for you in your turn had to bear the same ill-treatment from your neighbors as they did from the Jews, who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; who displease God, and in their hostility to all mankind

for he was an excellent man, full of the holy Spirit and faith. So a considerable number of people came over to the Lord.

and men and women in increasing numbers believed in the Lord and joined them. Signs and wonders in great numbers continued to be done among the people by the apostles,

For you will not desert my soul in death, You will not let your Holy One be destroyed.

And he has given us some men as apostles, some as prophets, some as missionaries, some as pastors and teachers, in order to fit his people for the work of service, for building the body of Christ,

At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.

which is his body, filled by him who fills everything everywhere.

I must tell you, brothers, how the favor of God has been shown in the churches of Macedonia,

He has put everything under his feet and made him the indisputable head of the church,

for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, which is his body, and is saved by him.

in order to bring the church to himself in all her beauty, without a flaw or a wrinkle or anything of the kind, but to be consecrated and faultless.

So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Just as the church is in subjection to Christ, so married women must be, in everything, to their husbands.

For we have all??ews or Greeks, slaves or free men??een baptized in one spirit to form one body, and we have all been saturated with one Spirit.

Have you no houses to eat and drink in? Or do you mean to show your contempt for the church of God, and to humiliate those who have none? What can I say to you? Can I approve of you? Not in this matter certainly.

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is sacred, and that is what you are.

She has been permitted to wear clean, glistening linen, for linen represents the upright deeds of God's people."

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

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

so that if I am delayed, you may know how we are to conduct ourselves in the household of God, for it is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Your sister-church in Babylon, chosen like you, and Mark my son wish to be remembered to you.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

so that if I am delayed, you may know how we are to conduct ourselves in the household of God, for it is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Because there is one loaf, we, many as we are, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.

You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.