63 Bible Verses about The church

Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?

And it became great, even as high as the army of heaven, pulling down some of the army, even of the stars, to the earth and crushing them under its feet. It made itself great, even as great as the lord of the army; and by it the regular burned offering was taken away, and the place overturned and the holy place made waste. ... against the regular burned offering; and ... crushed down to the earth, and it did its pleasure and things went well for it. read more.
Then there came to my ears the voice of a holy one talking; and another holy one said to that certain one who was talking, How long will the vision be while the regular burned offering is taken away, and the unclean thing causing fear is put up, and the holy place crushed under foot?

You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.

The secret of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold vessels with burning lights. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven lights are the seven churches.

And in the middle of them one like a son of man, clothed with a robe down to his feet, and with a band of gold round his breasts.

Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.

There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.

For our breastplate is the Lord; and our king is the Holy One of Israel's.

And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent;

But the Lord says, Even the prisoners of the strong will be taken from him, and the cruel made to let go his goods: for I will take up your cause against your haters, and I will keep your children safe.

Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,

For there is no other base for the building but that which has been put down, which is Jesus Christ.

To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God; You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.

While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits. Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth.

This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain; It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches. And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.

And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.

Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.

Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church.

For this reason, let the man who has the power of using tongues make request that he may, at the same time, be able to give the sense.

So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word, And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

And Saul gave approval to his death. Now at that time a violent attack was started against the church in Jerusalem; and all but the Apostles went away into all parts of Judaea and Samaria. And God-fearing men put Stephen's body in its last resting-place, making great weeping over him. But Saul was burning with hate against the church, going into every house and taking men and women and putting them in prison.

For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews; Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;

For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and a great number were joined to the Lord.

And a great number of men and women had faith, and were joined to the Lord;

For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.

And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.

And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching; For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;

Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.

I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.

And now we give you news, brothers, about the grace of God which has been given to the churches of Macedonia;

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

In the great house the king's daughter is all shining: her clothing is worked with gold.

And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.

For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit.

What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.

If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

And to her it was given to be clothed in delicate linen, clean and shining: for the clean linen is the righteousness of the saints.

To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for ever and ever. So be it.

So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,

But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.

She who is in Babylon, who has a part with you in the purpose of God, sends you her love; and so does my son Mark.

You will be full of camel-trains, even the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all from Sheba will come, with gold and spices, giving word of the great acts of the Lord.

Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.

You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine. I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;

For the Lord says, See, I will make her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and she will take her children in her arms, gently caring for them on her knees.

But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.

I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest, And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.

Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her. For I, says the Lord, will be a wall of fire round about her, and I will be the glory inside her.

Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.

Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.

Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.

Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.