Bible Verses About Church (2): Christian, divinely established

Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am?

Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.

And Jesus answering said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.

And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:

In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.

In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.