62 Bible Verses about The church

The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks, is this. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches."

and in the midst of the candlesticks One like to a son of man, clothed with a robe down to the feet, and with a golden girdle round his breast.

Because we who are many are one bread, one body, for we all do share in the one loaf.

In him there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and we are severally members of one another.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.

"Moreover I say to you that you are Petros (a rock), and on this petra (rock) I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against her.

You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone.

The foundation is already laid??esus Christ??nd no man can lay another.

Come to him then, that living Stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious. And yourselves like living stones be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God, through Christ Jesus.

not taking the blood of goats and oxen, but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy Place, obtaining for us an eternal redemption.

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, and be shepherds of the church of God which he has purchased with his own blood.

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

He who speaks in a tongue upbuilds himself; but he who prophesies upbuilds the church.

So let him who speaks with tongues pray that he may interpret.

in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word, so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless.

Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been 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 for her,

With these words he fell asleep. And Saul fully approved of his murder. On this very day there broke out a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostle were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. Devout men buried Stephen, and made loud lamentations over him. But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.

For you, brothers, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus; and you in your turn suffered at the hands of your fellow citizens persecutions like to those which they endured from the Jews??15 The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out??hey are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind.

for he was a good man, and full of faith and the Holy Spirit. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.

Yet the people continued to hold them in high honor, and more and more believers in the Lord were joining them, both men and women.

"For thou wilt not leave my soul in Hades, Nor give up thy Holy One to see corruption.

It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ??13 till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

which is his body, the fulness of Him who fills the universe.

Now, brothers, I wish to tell you about the grace of God which has been manifest in the churches of Macedonia.

God has put all things under Christ's feet, and placed him as Head over all in the church,

because a husband is the head of his wife even as Christ is head of the church, his body, which he saves.

so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless.

So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.

But as the church submits itself to Christ, so also wives to their husbands in everything.

And we can see this, for in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jew or Gentile, whether slave or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

What! Have you no houses in which to eat or drink? or do you wish to show your contempt for the church of God, and to shame those who have no homes to eat in? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I certainly do not praise you.

If any one tear down God's sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.

And it has been granted to her to array herself in fine linen, bright and pure; For the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints."

to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, to all generations, world without end, Amen.

in order that now his manifold wisdom should, through the church, be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly sphere,

I am writing this to you in case I should be detained, to let you see how you ought to behave in the household of God??he Church of the everliving God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

Your sister church in Babylon, elect with you, sends you salutations, and so does Marcus, my son.

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, and be shepherds of the church of God which he has purchased with his own blood.

I am writing this to you in case I should be detained, to let you see how you ought to behave in the household of God??he Church of the everliving God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

Because we who are many are one bread, one body, for we all do share in the one loaf.

Then get rid of the old leaven, so that you may be like a new lump, as you are now unleavened. For our Paschal Lamb has already been sacrificed, Christ himself.