Bible Verses About Church (2)

Gather the people, sanctify an assembly, Assemble the aged, Gather infants and sucklings of the breasts, Go out let a bridegroom from his inner chamber, And a bride out of her closet.

Between the porch and the altar weep let the priests, ministrants of Jehovah, And let them say: `Have pity, O Jehovah, on Thy people, And give not Thy inheritance to reproach, To the ruling over them of nations, Why do they say among peoples, Where is their God?'

He saith to them, `And ye--who do ye say me to be?'

and Simon Peter answering said, `Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

And Jesus answering said to him, `Happy art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

`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;

`For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, no more burden to lay upon you, except these necessary things:

to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;

and I say this, that each one of you saith, `I, indeed, am of Paul' --`and I of Apollos,' --`and I of Cephas,' --`and I of Christ.'

Hath the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or to the name of Paul were ye baptized;

for yet ye are fleshly, for where there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I--of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?

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

for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

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

which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner- stone ,

in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,

in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

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,