25 Bible Verses about The Church Universal

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.

to the solemn gathering of all God's elder sons, enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men now at last enjoying the fulfilment of their hopes,

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.

He is the head of the church, it is his body; for he is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead??hat he might come to stand first in everything.

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.

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

for no one ever hates his own person, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ does with the church,

This is a great secret, but I understand it of Christ and the church.

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

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as inspired preachers, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then come ability to cure the sick, helpfulness, administration, ecstatic speaking.

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

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.

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.

And the whole church and all who heard this were appalled.

For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church.

You have heard of my former conduct when I was attached to the Jewish religion??ow furiously I used to persecute the church of God and ravage it,

as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.

But Saul harassed the church. He went into one house after another, and dragging out men and women, put them in prison.

So the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace and became established. It lived in reverence for the Lord and, stimulated by the holy Spirit, it grew steadily in numbers.

So Peter was kept in the jail, but the church was praying earnestly to God for him.

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.

You must not be hindrances to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God either,