Matthew 16:18
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18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church,(A) and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
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Matthew 18:17
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17 If he doesn’t pay attention to them, tell the church.[a](A) If he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like a Gentile and a tax collector to you.(B)
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Acts 2:41-47
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41 So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added to them.
A Generous and Growing Church
42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching,(A) to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer.(B)
43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and signs were being performed through the apostles.(C) 44 Now all the believers were together and held all things in common.(D) 45 They sold their possessions and property and distributed the proceeds to all, as any had need. 46 Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with joyful and sincere hearts,(E) 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. Every day the Lord added to their number[a] those who were being saved.(F)
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Acts 9:31
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The Church’s Growth
31 So the church(A) throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
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Acts 11:22
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22 News about them reached[a] the church in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to travel[b] as far as Antioch.
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Acts 12:5
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5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was praying fervently to God for him.
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Acts 14:23
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23 When they had appointed elders(A) for them in every church and prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
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Acts 15:22
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The Letter to the Gentile Believers
22 Then the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, decided to select men who were among them and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas,(A) both leading men among the brothers.
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Acts 20:28
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1 Corinthians 1:2
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2 To the church of God at Corinth,(A) to those sanctified(B) in Christ Jesus, called(C) as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name(D) of Jesus Christ our Lord—both their Lord and ours.
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1 Corinthians 16:1
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Collection for the Jerusalem Church
16 Now about the collection(A) for the saints: Do the same as I instructed the Galatian(B) churches.
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Galatians 1:2
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Ephesians 1:22-23
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Ephesians 2:19-22
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19 So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,(A) with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building, being put together,(B) grows into a holy temple in the Lord.(C) 22 In him you are also being built together(D) for God’s dwelling(E) in the Spirit.
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Ephesians 3:9-10
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9 and to shed light for all about the administration of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created(A) all things. 10 This is so that God’s multi-faceted wisdom(B) may now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavens.(C)
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Ephesians 3:21
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21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.(A)
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Ephesians 5:22-33
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Wives and Husbands
22 Wives,(A) submit[a](B) to your husbands(C) as to the Lord, 23 because the husband is the head of the wife(D) as Christ is the head(E) of the church. He is the Savior of the body.(F) 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives,(G) just as Christ loved(H) the church and gave himself(I) for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[b] her with the washing of water by the word. 27 He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.(J) 28 In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, 30 since we are members of his body.[c] 31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,(K) and the two will become one flesh.[d](L) 32 This mystery(M) is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
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Colossians 1:18
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18 He is also the head of the body, the church;
he is the beginning,(A)
the firstborn from the dead,(B)
so that he might come to have
first place in everything.
Colossians 1:24
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Paul’s Ministry
24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings(A) for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body,(B) that is, the church.
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1 Timothy 3:15
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15 But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household,(A) which is the church of the living God,(B) the pillar and foundation of the truth.(C)
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Hebrews 12:23
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23 to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written[a] in heaven, to a Judge, who is God of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect,(A)
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