Bible Verses About Titles and Names of the Church

Take heede therefore vnto your selues, and to all the flocke, whereof the holy Ghost hath made you Ouerseers, to feede the Church of God, which hee hath purchased with that his owne blood.

For we together are Gods labourers: yee are Gods husbandrie, and Gods building.

Knowe ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

If any man destroy the Temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the Temple of God is holy, which ye are.

And what agreement hath the Temple of God with idols? for ye are the Temple of the liuing God: as God hath said, I will dwell among them, and walke there: and I will be their God, and they shalbe my people.

But Hierusalem, which is aboue, is free: which is the mother of vs all.

And as many as walke according to this rule, peace shalbe vpon them, and mercie, and vpon the Israel of God.

And hath made all things subiect vnder his feete, and hath giuen him ouer all things to be the head to the Church,

Which is his body, euen the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all things.

Nowe therefore ye are no more strangers and forreiners: but citizens with the Saintes, and of the houshold of God,

In whom ye also are built together to be the habitation of God by the Spirit.

(Of whom is named the whole familie in heauen and in earth)

Now reioyce I in my suffrings for you, and fulfill the rest of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodies sake, which is the Church,

But if I tary long, that thou maist yet know, how thou oughtest to behaue thy self in ye house of God, which is the Church of the liuing God, the pillar and ground of trueth.

But Christ is as the Sonne, ouer his owne house, whose house we are, if we holde fast that confidence and that reioycing of that hope vnto the ende.

And seeing we haue an hie Priest, which is ouer the house of God,

But ye are come vnto the mount Sion, and to the citie of the liuing God, the celestiall Hierusalem, and to ye company of innumerable Angels,

And to the assemblie and congregation of the first borne, which are written in heauen, and to God the iudge of all, and to the spirits of iust and perfite men,

Yee also as liuely stones, bee made a spirituall house, an holy Priesthoode to offer vp spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ.

Feede the flocke of God, which dependeth vpon you, caring for it not by constraint, but willingly: not for filthy lucre, but of a ready minde:

Not as though ye were lords ouer Gods heritage, but that yee may bee ensamples to the flocke.

The misterie of the seuen starres which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seuen golden candlestickes, is this, The seuen starres are the Angels of the seuen Churches: and the seuen candlestickes which thou sawest, are the seuen Churches.

Let vs be glad and reioyce, and giue glory to him: for the marriage of that Lambe is come, and his wife hath made her selfe ready.

And I Iohn sawe the holie citie newe Hierusalem come downe from God out of heauen, prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband.

And there came vnto mee one of the seuen Angels, which had the seuen vials full of the seuen last plagues, and talked with mee, saying, Come: I will shewe thee the bride, the Lambes wife.