Bible Verses About Titles and Names of the Church

Take heed to yourselves and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood.

For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's building.

Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

But that Jerusalem which is above is free: which is our mother.

And whosoever shall follow this rule, peace on them and mercy: and upon the Israel of God.

And he hath subjected all things under his feet and hath made him head over all the church,

Which is his body and the fulness of him who is filled all in all.

Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners: but you are fellow citizens with the saints and the domestics of God,

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

Of whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named:

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

But Christ, as the Son in his own house: which house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and glory of hope unto the end.

And a high priest over the house of God:

But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,

And to the church of the firstborn who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's sake but voluntarily:

Neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.

The mystery of the seven stars, which thou sawest in my right hand and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches. And the seven candlesticks are the seven churches.

Let us be glad and rejoice and give glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb is come: and his wife hath prepared herself.

And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

And there came one of the seven angels, who had the vials full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying: Come and I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.