'Assembly' in the Bible

'And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

At the hour of incense the whole assembly of the people was praying outside.

And as soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes; and they led him away into their council, saying,

Then their whole assembly rose up and brought Him before Pilate.

and they saw tongues of what looked like fire distributing themselves over the assembly, and on the head of each person a tongue alighted.

praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

and great fear came upon all the assembly, and upon all who heard these things.

The suggestion pleased the whole congregation; and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith [in Christ Jesus], and [filled with and led by] the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas (Nikolaos), a proselyte (Gentile convert) from Antioch.

This Moses is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and to our ancestors. He received living truths to give to us,

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;

and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison;

And the account was heard in the ears of the assembly that is in Jerusalem concerning them, and they sent forth Barnabas to go through unto Antioch,

and having found him, he brought him to Antioch, and it came to pass that they a whole year did assemble together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude, the disciples also were divinely called first in Antioch Christians.

And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly,

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God for him was being offered by the assembly.

And there were certain in Antioch, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also -- Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother -- and Saul;

and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

and having come and gathered together the assembly, they declared as many things as God did with them, and that He did open to the nations a door of faith;

they indeed, then, having been sent forward by the assembly, were passing through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations, and they were causing great joy to all the brethren.

And having come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, they declared also as many things as God did with them;

But certain men who had belonged to the sect of the Pharisees but were now believers, stood up in the assembly, and said, "Yes, Gentile believers ought to be circumcised and be ordered to keep the Law of Moses."

Then the whole assembly fell silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul describing all the signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, chosen men out of themselves to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas -- Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren --

it has been decided by us, having met together, to select men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Then, being sent off, they went down to Antioch, and after gathering the assembly, they delivered the letter.

But the Jews became jealous, and they brought together some scoundrels from the marketplace, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. Attacking Jason’s house, they searched for them to bring them out to the public assembly.

and having come down to Caesarea, having gone up, and having saluted the assembly, he went down to Antioch.

And when Paul wanted to go into the assembly, the disciples would not let him.

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.

Some of the crowd concluded it was Alexander, since the Jews had put him forward; and having motioned with his hand, Alexander was intending to make a defense to the assembly.

But if ye inquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.

For indeed we are in danger of being accused of rioting concerning today, [since there] is no cause in relation to which we will be able to give an account concerning this disorderly gathering!" And [when he] had said these [things], he dismissed the assembly.

And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

And from Miletus, having sent to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the assembly,

'Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.

When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

And I commend you to Phebe our sister -- being a ministrant of the assembly that is in Cenchrea --

and the assembly at their house; salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is first-fruit of Achaia to Christ.

salute you doth Gaius, my host, and of the whole assembly; salute you doth Erastus, the steward of the city, and Quartus the brother,

to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place -- both theirs and ours:

because of this I sent to you Timotheus, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, according as everywhere in every assembly I teach.

of the things of life, indeed, then, if ye may have judgment, those despised in the assembly -- these cause ye to sit;

become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe it,

why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!

And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

he who is speaking in an unknown tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;

and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an unknown tongue.

If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,

Salute you do the assemblies of Asia; salute you much in the Lord do Aquilas and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house;

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,

that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

to Him is the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!

and ye have known, even ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news when I went forth from Macedonia, no assembly did communicate with me in regard to giving and receiving except ye only;

And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things -- himself -- first,

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

salute ye those in Laodicea -- brethren, and Nymphas, and the assembly in his house;

and when the epistle may be read with you, cause that also in the assembly of the Laodiceans it may be read, and the epistle from Laodicea that ye also may read;

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

(and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,

If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

and Apphia the beloved, and Archippus our fellow-soldier, and the assembly in thy house:

saying, 'I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, 'I will be trusting on Him;'

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

Salute you doth the assembly in Babylon jointly elected, and Markus my son.

who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,

I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us;

because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.

To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands -- the golden:

'And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live;

'And to the messenger of the assembly in Pergamos write: These things saith he who is having the sharp two-edged sword:

'And to the messenger of the assembly of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who is having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass;

And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead;

'And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!

And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness -- the faithful and true -- the chief of the creation of God;