Matt.16.18  And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it.
Matt.18.17  If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Acts.5.11  And great fear came upon the whole church, and upon all who heard of these things.
Acts.8.1  And Saul was consenting to his death. And on that day a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the region of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Acts.8.3  But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.
Acts.9.31  So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied.
Acts.11.22  News of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
Acts.11.26  and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church, and taught a large company of people; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians.
Acts.12.1  About that time Herod the king laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church.
Acts.12.5  So Peter was kept in prison; but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
Acts.13.1  Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Mana-en a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Acts.14.23  And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they believed.
Acts.14.27  And when they arrived, they gathered the church together and declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Acts.15.3  So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, reporting the conversion of the Gentiles, and they gave great joy to all the brethren.
Acts.15.4  When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.
Acts.15.22  Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren,
Acts.15.41  And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
Acts.16.5  So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.
Acts.18.22  When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and then went down to Antioch.
Acts.20.17  And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church.
Acts.20.28  Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
Rom.16.1  I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deaconess of the church at Cenchreae,
Rom.16.4  who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I but also all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks;
Rom.16.5  greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert in Asia for Christ.
Rom.16.16  Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
Rom.16.23  Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.
1Cor.1.2  To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
1Cor.4.17  Therefore I sent to you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
1Cor.5.12  For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
1Cor.6.4  If then you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who are least esteemed by the church?
1Cor.7.17  Only, let every one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to him, and in which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
1Cor.10.32  Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
1Cor.11.16  If any one is disposed to be contentious, we recognize no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
1Cor.11.18  For, in the first place, when you assemble as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it,
1Cor.11.22  What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
1Cor.12.28  And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues.
1Cor.14.4  He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
1Cor.14.5  Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. He who prophesies is greater than he who speaks in tongues, unless some one interprets, so that the church may be edified.
1Cor.14.12  So with yourselves; since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
1Cor.14.19  nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind, in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
1Cor.14.23  If, therefore, the whole church assembles and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?
1Cor.14.28  But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silence in church and speak to himself and to God.
1Cor.14.33  For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
1Cor.14.34  the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says.
1Cor.14.35  If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
1Cor.15.9  For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
1Cor.16.1  Now concerning the contribution for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.
1Cor.16.19  The churches of Asia send greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.
2Cor.1.1  Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother. To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2Cor.8.1  We want you to know, brethren, about the grace of God which has been shown in the churches of Macedonia,
2Cor.8.18  With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel;
2Cor.8.19  and not only that, but he has been appointed by the churches to travel with us in this gracious work which we are carrying on, for the glory of the Lord and to show our good will.
2Cor.8.23  As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker in your service; and as for our brethren, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.
2Cor.8.24  So give proof, before the churches, of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.
2Cor.11.8  I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
2Cor.11.28  And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches.
2Cor.12.13  For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
Gal.1.2  and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:
Gal.1.13  For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it;
Gal.1.22  And I was still not known by sight to the churches of Christ in Judea;
Eph.1.22  and he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church,
Eph.3.10  that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places.
Eph.3.21  to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.
Eph.5.23  For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Eph.5.24  As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
Eph.5.25  Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Eph.5.27  that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
Eph.5.29  For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,
Eph.5.32  This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church;
Phil.3.6  as to zeal a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the law blameless.
Phil.4.15  And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving except you only;
Col.1.18  He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
Col.1.24  Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
Col.4.15  Give my greetings to the brethren at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.
Col.4.16  And when this letter has been read among you, have it read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you read also the letter from Laodicea.
1Thess.1.1  Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.
1Thess.2.14  For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judea; for you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
2Thess.1.1  Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2Thess.1.4  Therefore we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you are enduring.
1Tim.3.5  for if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for God's church?
1Tim.3.15  if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.
1Tim.5.16  If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her assist them; let the church not be burdened, so that it may assist those who are real widows.
Phlm.1.2  and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
Jas.13.14  Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
3John.1.6  who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God's service.
3John.1.9  I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.
3John.1.10  So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, prating against me with evil words. And not content with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.
Rev.1.4  John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,
Rev.1.11  saying, "Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."
Rev.1.20  As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
Rev.2.1  "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: `The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.
Rev.2.7  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.'
Rev.2.8  "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: `The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.
Rev.2.11  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who conquers shall not be hurt by the second death.'
Rev.2.12  "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: `The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.
Rev.2.17  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone which no one knows except him who receives it.'
Rev.2.18  "And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: `The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
Rev.2.23  and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches shall know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.
Rev.2.29  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Rev.3.1  "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: `The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. "`I know your works; you have the name of being alive, and you are dead.
Rev.3.6  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Rev.3.7  "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: `The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, who shuts and no one opens.
Rev.3.13  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Rev.3.14  "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: `The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.
Rev.3.22  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"
Rev.22.16  "I Jesus have sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star."