13 Bible Verses about Each Local Church

And when they had ordained them presbyters in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Is any among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord:

For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

For first, when ye come together in the church, I hear there are schisms among you, (and I partly believe it.

I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied; for he that prophesieth, is greater than he that speaketh with tongues, unless he interpret, that the church may receive edification.

Yet if the whole church be met together, and all speak with unknown tongues, and there come in ignorant persons or unbelievers, will they not say, that ye are mad?

He that speaketh in an unknown tongue, edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth, edifieth the church.

So ye also, seeing ye desire spiritual gifts, seek to abound in them, to the edifying of the church.

Yet in the congregation I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

And if they desire to learn any thing, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is indecent for a woman to speak in the assembly.

If any believing man or woman hath widows, let them relieve them; and let not the church be burthened, that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

Who have testified of thy love before the church; whom if thou send forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well.

And if he will not hear them, tell it to the church; but if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as an heathen and a publican.