Church throughout a region (Acts 9:31; 2 Cor 8:1; Gal 1:2, 22; 1 Thess 2:14; Rev 1:4)
Churches of the Gentiles (Rom 16:4)
Church in someone’s house (Rom 16:5; Col 4:15; Philem 2)
Universal church (Acts 20:28; Gal 1:13; Eph 3:10, 21; 5:23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 32; Php 3:6; Col 1:18, 24; 1 Tim 3:5, 15)
God and the church
The church belongs to God
Acts 20:28 – Pay careful attention 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 his own blood.
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
1 Cor 10:32 – Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
1 Cor 11:16 – If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.
1 Cor 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.
1 Cor 15:9 – For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
2 Cor 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
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.
1 Thess 2:14 – For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
2 Thess 1:4 – Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.
1 Tim 3:5 – for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
God adds members to the church
Acts 2:41 – So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:47 – praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
God has obtained her with his own blood
Acts 20:28 – Pay careful attention 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 his own blood.
God empowers members with gifts
1 Cor 12:6 – and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
God arranged the members
1 Cor 12:18 – But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
God gave Christ as head over all things to the church
Eph 1:22 – And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
The growth of the church is from God
Col 2:19 – and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
God has called us into the church
Col 3:15 – And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Christ and the church
Christ is the head and the church is His body
1 Cor 12:12 – For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Eph 1:22 – And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23 – which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Eph 4:15 – Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Eph 5:30 – because we are members of his body.
Col 1:18 – And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn 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 am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
Col 2:19 – and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
The church belongs to Jesus Christ
Mt 16:18 – And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Rom 16:16 – Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
Eph 5:27 – so 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.
Cf. Rev 21:2, 9
Christ appoints gifts in the church
1 Cor 12:5 – and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
Eph 4:11 – And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,
Eph 4:12 – to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Christ builds the church
Mt 16:18 – And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Eph 2:22 – In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
Christ Jesus is the cornerstone of the church
Eph 2:20 – built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
Eph 2:22 – In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
Christ is the head over all things to the church
Eph 1:22 – And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
Christ is the Savior of the church
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
The church submits to Christ
Eph 5:24 – Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
Eph 5:25 – Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Christ cleanses the church and sanctifies her
Eph 5:26 – that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Christ presents the church to Himself
Eph 5:27 – so 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.
The Holy Spirit and the church
The Spirit distributes gifts in the church
1 Cor 12:7 – To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
1 Cor 12:8 – To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
1 Cor 12:9 – to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
1 Cor 12:10 – to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
1 Cor 12:11 – All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
In one Spirit we were all baptized into one body
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
The church is the dwelling place for God by the Spirit
Eph 2:22 – In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
Analogies of the church
Body
1 Cor 10:17 – Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
1 Cor 12:12 – For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
1 Cor 12:14 – For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
1 Cor 12:15 – If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
1 Cor 12:16 – And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
1 Cor 12:17 – If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
1 Cor 12:18 – But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
1 Cor 12:19 – If all were a single member, where would the body be?
1 Cor 12:20 – As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
1 Cor 12:22 – On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
1 Cor 12:23 – and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
1 Cor 12:24 – which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
1 Cor 12:25 – that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Eph 1:22 – And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23 – which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Eph 4:4 – There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call–
Eph 4:12 – to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Eph 4:16 – from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Eph 5:30 – because we are members of his body.
Col 1:18 – And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn 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 am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
Col 2:19 – and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
Col 3:15 – And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Cf. Eph 3:6
House of God
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
1 Pet 4:17 – For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
Cf. Eph 2:19 [footnote text=“The Greek term in this verse, <i>oikeioi</i>, οἰκεῖοι, means members of a household. It is a cognate of <i>oikos</i>, οἶκος ("household").”]
Spiritual house, holy priesthood
1 Pet 2:5 – you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Jerusalem above, the city of the living God, mother
Gal 4:26 – But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
Heb 12:22 – But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
Rev 21:2 – And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:10 – And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
Cf. Rev 20:9
Bride, wife of the Lamb
Rev 21:2 – And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:9 – Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, "Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb."
Cf. Eph 5:25-32
Fullness of him who fills all in all
Eph 1:23 – which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Building and holy temple
Eph 2:21 – in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
God’s temple
1 Cor 3:16 – Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Dwelling place of God
Eph 2:22 – In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
Pillar and buttress of truth
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
Assembly of the firstborn
Heb 12:23 – and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
Elect lady
2 Jn 1:1 – The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,
Lampstand
Rev 1:20 – As for the mystery of the seven stars that 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.
Woman
Rev 12:1 – And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Rev 12:2 – She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.
Rev 12:4 – His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.
Rev 12:5 – She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
Rev 12:6 – and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.
Rev 12:13 – And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
Rev 12:14 – But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
Rev 12:15 – The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.
Rev 12:16 – But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.
Rev 12:17 – Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.
Camp of the saints
Rev 20:9 – And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,
Other terms referring to believers in general
Brothers, sisters
Mt 25:40 – And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'
Mt 28:10 – Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me."
Lk 22:32 – but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers."
Jn 20:17 – Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
Jn 21:23 – So the saying spread abroad among the brothers that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"
Acts 9:30 – And when the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
Acts 10:23 – So he invited them in to be his guests.The next day he rose and went away with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
Acts 11:1 – Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
Acts 11:12 – And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house.
Acts 11:29 – So the disciples determined, everyone according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.
Acts 12:17 – But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, "Tell these things to James and to the brothers." Then he departed and went to another place.
Acts 14:2 – But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
Acts 15:1 – But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."
Acts 15:3 – So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Acts 15:13 – After they finished speaking, James replied, "Brothers, listen to me.
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 brothers,
Acts 15:23 – with the following letter: "The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings.
Acts 15:32 – And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.
Acts 15:33 – And after they had spent some time, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.
Acts 15:36 – And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are."
Acts 15:40 – but Paul chose Silas and departed, having been commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.
Acts 16:2 – He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium.
Acts 16:40 – So they went out of the prison and visited Lydia. And when they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them and departed.
Acts 17:6 – And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, "These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
Acts 17:10 – The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Acts 17:14 – Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.
Acts 18:18 – After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers and set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow.
Acts 18:27 – And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,
Acts 21:7 – When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for one day.
Acts 21:17 – When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.
Acts 28:14 – There we found brothers and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome.
Acts 28:15 – And the brothers there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. On seeing them, Paul thanked God and took courage.
Rom 1:13 – I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
Rom 7:1 – Or do you not know, brothers–for I am speaking to those who know the law–that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?
Rom 7:4 – Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
Rom 8:12 – So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
Rom 8:29 – For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Rom 9:3 – For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
Rom 10:1 – Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.
Rom 11:25 – Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Rom 12:1 – I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Rom 14:10 – Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Rom 14:13 – Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Rom 14:15 – For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.
Rom 14:21 – It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
Rom 15:14 – I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
Rom 15:30 – I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,
Rom 16:1 – I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,
Jas 2:15 – If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
Rom 16:14 – Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.
Rom 16:17 – I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.
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.
1 Cor 1:1 – Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
1 Cor 1:10 – I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
1 Cor 1:11 – For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.
1 Cor 1:26 – For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
1 Cor 2:1 – And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.
1 Cor 3:1 – But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
1 Cor 4:6 – I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
1 Cor 5:11 – But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler–not even to eat with such a one.
1 Cor 6:5 – I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,
1 Cor 6:6 – but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
1 Cor 6:8 – But you yourselves wrong and defraud–even your own brothers!
1 Cor 7:12 – To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
1 Cor 7:14 – For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
1 Cor 7:15 – But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.
1 Cor 7:24 – So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.
1 Cor 7:29 – This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,
1 Cor 8:11 – And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.
1 Cor 8:12 – Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
1 Cor 8:13 – Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
1 Cor 9:5 – Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
1 Cor 10:1 – I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
1 Cor 11:33 – So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another–
1 Cor 12:1 – Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
1 Cor 14:6 – Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
1 Cor 14:20 – Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
1 Cor 14:26 – What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
1 Cor 14:39 – So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
1 Cor 15:1 – Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,
1 Cor 15:6 – Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
1 Cor 15:31 – I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
1 Cor 15:50 – I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
1 Cor 15:58 – Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
1 Cor 16:11 – So let no one despise him. Help him on his way in peace, that he may return to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers.
1 Cor 16:12 – Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.
1 Cor 16:15 – Now I urge you, brothers–you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints–
1 Cor 16:20 – All the brothers send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
2 Cor 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2 Cor 1:8 – For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.
2 Cor 2:13 – my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.
2 Cor 8:1 – We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,
2 Cor 8:18 – With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel.
2 Cor 8:22 – And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you.
2 Cor 8:23 – As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for your benefit. And as for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.
2 Cor 9:3 – But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove vain in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be.
2 Cor 9:5 – So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction.
2 Cor 11:9 – And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.
2 Cor 12:18 – I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?
2 Cor 13:11 – Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Gal 1:2 – and all the brothers who are with me,To the churches of Galatia:
Gal 1:11 – For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel.
Gal 1:19 – But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother.
Gal 3:15 – To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.
Gal 4:12 – Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong.
Gal 4:28 – Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
Gal 4:31 – So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.
Gal 5:11 – But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
Gal 5:13 – For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Gal 6:1 – Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
Gal 6:18 – The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
Eph 6:21 – So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything.
Eph 6:23 – Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Phil 1:12 – I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel,
Phil 1:14 – And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
Phil 2:25 – I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,
Phil 3:1 – Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.
Phil 3:13 – Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
Phil 3:17 – Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.
Phil 4:1 – Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.
Phil 4:8 – Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Phil 4:21 – Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.
Col 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Col 1:2 – To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae:Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
Col 4:7 – Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.
Col 4:9 – and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.
Col 4:15 – Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.
1 Thess 1:4 – For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,
1 Thess 2:1 – For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain.
1 Thess 2:9 – For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
1 Thess 2:14 – For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
1 Thess 2:17 – But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face,
1 Thess 3:2 – and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,
1 Thess 3:7 – for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith.
1 Thess 4:1 – Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.
1 Thess 4:6 – that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
1 Thess 4:10 – for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more,
1 Thess 4:13 – But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
1 Thess 5:1 – Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you.
1 Thess 5:4 – But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
1 Thess 5:12 – We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
1 Thess 5:14 – And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
1 Thess 5:25 – Brothers, pray for us.
1 Thess 5:26 – Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.
1 Thess 5:27 – I put you under oath before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers.
2 Thess 1:3 – We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
2 Thess 2:1 – Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,
2 Thess 2:13 – But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
2 Thess 2:15 – So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.
2 Thess 3:1 – Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you,
2 Thess 3:6 – Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
2 Thess 3:13 – As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.
2 Thess 3:15 – Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
1 Tim 4:6 – If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.
1 Tim 5:1 – Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father. Treat younger men like brothers,
1 Tim 5:2 – older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, in all purity.
1 Tim 6:2 – Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.Teach and urge these things.
2 Tim 4:21 – Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers.
Phm 1:1 – Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
Phm 1:2 – and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
Phm 1:7 – For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
Phm 1:16 – no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother–especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
Phm 1:20 – Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
Heb 2:11 – For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
Heb 2:12 – saying, "I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."
Heb 2:17 – Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Heb 3:1 – Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
Heb 3:12 – Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
Heb 7:5 – And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, though these also are descended from Abraham.
Heb 8:11 – And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
Heb 10:19 – Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 13:22 – I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.
Heb 13:23 – You should know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I shall see you if he comes soon.
Jas 1:2 – Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
Jas 1:9 – Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,
Jas 1:16 – Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Jas 1:19 – Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Jas 2:1 – My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
Jas 2:5 – Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
Jas 2:14 – What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
Jas 2:15 – If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
Jas 3:1 – Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
Jas 3:10 – From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Jas 3:12 – Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
Jas 4:11 – Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Jas 5:7 – Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.
Jas 5:9 – Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
Jas 5:10 – As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Jas 5:12 – But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your "yes" be yes and your "no" be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
Jas 5:19 – My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,
1 Pet 5:12 – By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.
2 Pet 1:10 – Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
2 Pet 3:15 – And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
1 Jn 2:9 – Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.
1 Jn 2:10 – Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
1 Jn 2:11 – But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
1 Jn 3:10 – By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
1 Jn 3:12 – We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
1 Jn 3:13 – Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
1 Jn 3:14 – We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
1 Jn 3:15 – Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
1 Jn 3:16 – By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 Jn 3:17 – But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
1 Jn 4:20 – If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1 Jn 4:21 – And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1 Jn 5:16 – If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life–to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
3 Jn 1:3 – For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.
3 Jn 1:5 – Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are,
3 Jn 1:10 – So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.
Jude 1:1 – Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James,To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
Rev 1:9 – I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
Rev 6:11 – Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Rev 12:10 – And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
Rev 19:10 – Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God." For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Rev 22:9 – but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God."
Believers, faithful
Mt 18:6 – but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Mk 9:23 – And Jesus said to him, "If you can! All things are possible for one who believes."
Mk 9:42 – "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
Mk 16:16 – Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mk 16:17 – And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
Jn 1:12 – But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Jn 3:16 – "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Jn 3:36 – Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Jn 6:35 – Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
Jn 6:40 – For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."
Jn 6:47 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
Jn 7:38 – Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'"
Jn 7:39 – Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Jn 11:25 – Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
Jn 11:26 – and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"
Jn 12:44 – And Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.
Jn 12:46 – I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
Jn 14:12 – "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
Jn 17:20 – "I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
Acts 2:44 – And all who believed were together and had all things in common.
Acts 4:32 – Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.
Acts 5:14 – And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,
Acts 10:43 – To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."
Acts 10:45 – And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.
Acts 11:21 – And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.
Acts 13:39 – from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Acts 15:5 – But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses."
Acts 16:1 – Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek.
Acts 16:15 – And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.
Acts 18:27 – And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,
Acts 19:18 – Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.
Acts 21:20 – And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law,
Acts 22:19 – And I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.
Rom 1:16 – For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Rom 3:22 – the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 4:24 – but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
Rom 9:33 – as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."
Rom 10:4 – For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Rom 10:11 – For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."
1 Cor 1:21 – For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
1 Cor 14:22 – Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.
2 Cor 6:15 – What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
Gal 3:22 – But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Eph 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
Eph 1:19 – and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
Col 1:2 – To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae:Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
Col 4:9 – and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.
1 Thess 1:7 – so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.
1 Thess 2:10 – You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.
1 Thess 2:13 – And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
2 Thess 1:10 – when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
1 Tim 4:10 – For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.
1 Tim 4:12 – Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
1 Tim 6:2 – Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.Teach and urge these things.
Tit 1:6 – if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.
Tit 3:8 – The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.
Heb 4:3 – For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest,'"although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
1 Pet 1:21 – who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
1 Pet 2:6 – For it stands in Scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."
1 Pet 2:7 – So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,"
1 Pet 5:12 – By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.
1 Jn 5:1 – Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
1 Jn 5:5 – Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 Jn 5:10 – Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.
1 Jn 5:13 – I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
Rev 17:14 – They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful."
Saints
Mt 27:52 – The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,
Acts 9:13 – But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem.
Acts 9:32 – Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.
Acts 9:41 – And he gave her his hand and raised her up. Then calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
Acts 26:10 – And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.
Rom 1:7 – To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints:Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 8:27 – And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Rom 12:13 – Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
Rom 15:25 – At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem bringing aid to the saints.
Rom 15:26 – For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.
Rom 15:31 – that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,
Rom 16:2 – that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.
Rom 16:15 – Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
1 Cor 6:1 – When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
1 Cor 6:2 – Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
1 Cor 14:33 – For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.As in all the churches of the saints,
1 Cor 16:1 – Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.
1 Cor 16:15 – Now I urge you, brothers–you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints–
2 Cor 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2 Cor 8:4 – begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints–
2 Cor 9:1 – Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the ministry for the saints,
2 Cor 9:12 – For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.
2 Cor 13:13 – All the saints greet you.
Eph 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
Eph 1:15 – For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
Eph 1:18 – having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
Eph 2:19 – So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
Eph 3:8 – To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Eph 3:18 – may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Eph 4:12 – to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Eph 5:3 – But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
Eph 6:18 – praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
Phil 1:1 – Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus,To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:
Phil 4:22 – All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar's household.
Col 1:2 – To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae:Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
Col 1:4 – since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
Col 1:12 – giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
Col 1:26 – the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
Col 3:12 – Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
1 Thess 3:13 – so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
2 Thess 1:10 – when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
1 Tim 5:10 – and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.
Phm 1:5 – because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
Phm 1:7 – For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
Heb 6:10 – For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love that you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.
Heb 13:24 – Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.
Jude 1:3 – Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
Jude 1:14 – It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
Rev 5:8 – And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Rev 8:3 – And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne,
Rev 8:4 – and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Rev 13:7 – Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation,
Rev 13:10 – If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain.Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
Rev 14:12 – Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
Rev 16:6 – For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!"
Rev 17:6 – And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
Rev 18:20 – Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"
Rev 18:24 – And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth."
Rev 19:8 – it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure"–for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
Rev 20:9 – And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,
Beloved
Rom 1:7 – To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints:Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 12:19 – Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
2 Cor 7:1 – Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
2 Cor 12:19 – Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
Eph 5:1 – Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
Col 3:12 – Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
1 Tim 6:2 – Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.Teach and urge these things.
Phm 1:16 – no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother–especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
Heb 6:9 – Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things–things that belong to salvation.
Jas 1:16 – Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Jas 1:19 – Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Jas 2:5 – Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
1 Pet 2:11 – Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
1 Pet 4:12 – Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
2 Pet 3:1 – This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder,
2 Pet 3:8 – But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Pet 3:14 – Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
2 Pet 3:17 – You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.
1 Jn 2:7 – Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.
1 Jn 3:2 – Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
1 Jn 3:21 – Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
1 Jn 4:1 – Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 Jn 4:7 – Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 Jn 4:11 – Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
3 Jn 1:2 – Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
3 Jn 1:5 – Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are,
3 Jn 1:11 – Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
Jude 1:3 – Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
Jude 1:17 – But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:20 – But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
Disciples
Acts 6:1 – Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.
Acts 6:2 – And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, "It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.
Acts 6:7 – And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.
Acts 9:1 – But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 9:10 – Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." And he said, "Here I am, Lord."
Acts 9:19 – and taking food, he was strengthened.For some days he was with the disciples at Damascus.
Acts 9:26 – And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.
Acts 9:38 – Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, "Please come to us without delay."
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 great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
Acts 11:29 – So the disciples determined, everyone according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.
Acts 13:52 – And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 14:20 – But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.
Acts 14:22 – strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
Acts 14:28 – And they remained no little time with the disciples.
Acts 15:10 – Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
Acts 16:1 – Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek.
Acts 18:23 – After spending some time there, he departed and went from one place to the next through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
Acts 18:27 – And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,
Acts 19:1 – And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples.
Acts 19:9 – But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.
Acts 19:30 – But when Paul wished to go in among the crowd, the disciples would not let him.
Acts 20:30 – and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Acts 21:4 – And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.
Acts 21:16 – And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we should lodge.
Children
Jn 1:12 – But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Jn 11:52 – and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Rom 8:16 – The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Rom 8:17 – and if children, then heirs–heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Rom 8:21 – that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Rom 9:8 – This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
Gal 4:28 – Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
Gal 4:31 – So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.
Eph 5:1 – Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
Phil 2:15 – that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
1 Pet 1:14 – As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
1 Jn 3:1 – See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 Jn 3:2 – Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
1 Jn 3:10 – By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
1 Jn 5:2 – By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
2 Jn 1:1 – The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,
2 Jn 1:4 – I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.
2 Jn 1:13 – The children of your elect sister greet you.
3 Jn 1:4 – I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
Elect
Mt 24:22 – And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
Mt 24:24 – For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
Mt 24:31 – And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mk 13:20 – And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
Mk 13:22 – False christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
Mk 13:27 – And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
Lk 18:7 – And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
Rom 8:33 – Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
Col 3:12 – Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
2 Tim 2:10 – Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
1 Pet 1:1 – Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1 Pet 2:4 – As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,
1 Pet 2:9 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Rev 17:14 – They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful."
Cf. 1 Cor 1:27, 28; Eph 1:4; 1 Thess 1:4; Jas 2:5
Sons, daughters
Rom 8:14 – For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Rom 8:19 – For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
Rom 9:26 – "And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"
2 Cor 6:18 – and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."
Gal 3:26 – for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Gal 4:6 – And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
Gal 4:7 – So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
1 Thess 5:5 – For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.
Heb 2:10 – For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
Heb 12:5 – And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
Heb 12:6 – For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives."
Servants
Eph 6:6 – not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
Rev 1:1 – The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Rev 6:11 – Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Rev 7:3 – saying, "Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads."
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Rev 19:2 – for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
Rev 22:3 – No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.
Rev 22:6 – And he said to me, "These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place."
Called
Rom 1:6 – including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ,
Rom 1:7 – To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints:Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 8:28 – And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Heb 9:15 – Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Jude 1:1 – Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James,To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
Rev 17:14 – They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful."
Cf. Acts 2:39; 15:17; Rom 8:30; 9:24; 1 Cor 1:9, 26; 7:15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24; Gal 1:6; 5:8, 13; Eph 1:18; 4:4; Col 3:15; 1 Thess 4:7; 5:24; 2 Thess 1:11; 2:14; 1 Tim 6:12; 2 Tim 1:9; Heb 3:1; Jas 2:7; 1 Pet 1:15; 2:9, 21; 3:9; 5:10; 2 Pet 1:10
Those who call on the Lord
Acts 2:21 – And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.'
Acts 9:14 – And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."
Acts 9:21 – And all who heard him were amazed and said, "Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called upon this name? And has he not come here for this purpose, to bring them bound before the chief priests?"
Rom 10:12 – For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
Rom 10:13 – For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Cf. Acts 22:16
Heirs
Rom 8:17 – and if children, then heirs–heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Gal 4:7 – So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Tit 3:7 – so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Jas 2:5 – Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
Cf. Eph 1:11, 14, 18; Col 1:12; Heb 1:14; 6:12; 1 Pet 1:4; 3:7, 9; Rev 21:7
Those who love God and the Lord Jesus
Jn 14:21 – Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."
Rom 8:28 – And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
1 Cor 2:9 – But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"–
Eph 6:24 – Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.
Jas 1:12 – Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Offspring
Rom 4:16 – That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring–not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Rom 9:8 – This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
Gal 3:29 – And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Heb 2:16 – For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.
Rev 12:17 – Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.
Partakers
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Heb 3:1 – Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
Heb 3:14 – For we share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
Heb 6:4 – For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,
Christians
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 great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
Acts 26:28 – And Agrippa said to Paul, "In a short time would you persuade me to be a Christian?"
1 Pet 4:16 – Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.
Israel, twelve tribes
Gal 6:16 – And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
Jas 1:1 – James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.
Cf. Rom 9:6
Chosen race, royal priesthood, holy nation, God’s people
1 Pet 2:9 – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Pet 2:10 – Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Sheep
John 10:2-5, 7-16
Those who fear God’s name
Rev 11:18 – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Attributes of the church
The church is one
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Acts 15:8 – And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
Acts 15:9 – and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
Rom 12:4 – For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,
Rom 12:5 – so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
1 Cor 1:13 – Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
1 Cor 10:17 – Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
1 Cor 12:12 – For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
1 Cor 12:20 – As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
1 Cor 12:25 – that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
Gal 3:28 – There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Eph 2:14 – For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
Eph 2:15 – by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
Eph 2:16 – and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Eph 2:17 – And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.
Eph 2:18 – For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Eph 2:19 – So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
Eph 4:4 – There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call–
Eph 4:7 – But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.
Eph 4:8 – Therefore it says, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men."
Eph 4:9 – (In saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth?
Eph 4:10 – He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Eph 4:11 – And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,
Eph 4:12 – to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Eph 4:13 – until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Eph 4:14 – so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
Col 3:11 – Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Col 3:15 – And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Cf. Jn 17:11, 21, 22, 23
The church consists of many members
Rom 12:5 – so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
1 Cor 12:12 – For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Cor 12:14 – For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
1 Cor 12:19 – If all were a single member, where would the body be?
1 Cor 12:20 – As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
The church is holy
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
Eph 5:27 – so 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.
Baptism as the means of being added to the church
Acts 2:41 – So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Basis of the unity of the church (see Eph 4:4-6)
One Spirit
1 Cor 12:4 – Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
1 Cor 12:9 – to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
2 Cor 11:4 – For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
Eph 4:4 – There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call–
1 Jn 4:1 – Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 Jn 4:2 – By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
1 Jn 4:3 – and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
1 Jn 4:6 – We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
One Lord
1 Cor 12:5 – and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
2 Cor 11:4 – For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
Eph 4:5 – one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
One faith
2 Cor 11:4 – For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
Gal 1:6 – I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel–
Gal 1:7 – not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
Gal 1:8 – But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
Gal 1:9 – As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
Eph 4:5 – one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Eph 4:13 – until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Eph 4:14 – so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
Eph 4:15 – Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
2 Jn 1:9 – Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
2 Jn 1:10 – If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,
Jude 1:3 – Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
One baptism
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Eph 4:5 – one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
One God and Father of all
1 Cor 12:6 – and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
Eph 4:6 – one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Exhortations to members of the church
Keep the unity of the body
Use our various gifts for the common good
Rom 12:6-8
1 Cor 12:4-31
Eph 4:16 – from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
1 Pet 4:10-11
Pursue peace and mutual edification
Do not pass judgment on each other (Rom 14:1-13)
Rom 14:19 – So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
Eph 4:3 – eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Eph 4:29 – Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Bear with and welcome one another
Rom 15:1-7
Eph 4:1-2, 31, 32
Phil 2:14 – Do all things without grumbling or questioning,
1 Pet 4:9 – Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.
Care for one another
1 Cor 12:25 – that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
1 Cor 12:26 – If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Phil 2:4 – Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Let there be no division
1 Cor 1:10 – I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
1 Cor 12:25 – that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
Phil 2:3 – Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Speak the truth in love
Eph 4:15 – Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Eph 4:16 – from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Eph 4:25 – Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
Think with sober judgment
Rom 12:3 – For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Seek unity in humility
Php 2:1-11
Stir up and exhort one another
Heb 10:24 – And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
Heb 10:25 – not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Hebrew terms translated as <i>ekklēsia</i>, ἐκκλησία ("Church") in the Septuagint
קָהָל
Deut 9:10 – And the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the LORD had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.
Deut 18:16 – just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.'
Deut 23:1 – "No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
Deut 23:2 – "No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Deut 23:3 – "No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the LORD forever,
Deut 23:8 – Children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Deut 31:30 – Then Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished, in the ears of all the assembly of Israel:
Josh 8:35 – There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them.
Judg 20:2 – And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword.
Judg 21:5 – And the people of Israel said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death."
Judg 21:8 – And they said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah?" And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly.
1 Sam 17:47 – and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into our hand."
1 Kgs 8:14 – Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
1 Kgs 8:22 – Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven,
1 Kgs 8:55 – And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
1 Kgs 8:65 – So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days.
1 Chr 13:2 – And David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you and from the LORD our God, let us send abroad to our brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, as well as to the priests and Levites in the cities that have pasturelands, that they may be gathered to us.
1 Chr 13:4 – All the assembly agreed to do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
1 Chr 28:8 – Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.
1 Chr 29:1 – And David the king said to all the assembly, "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the palace will not be for man but for the LORD God.
1 Chr 29:10 – Therefore David blessed the LORD in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: "Blessed are you, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
1 Chr 29:20 – Then David said to all the assembly, "Bless the LORD your God." And all the assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed their heads and paid homage to the LORD and to the king.
2 Chr 1:3 – And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness, was there.
2 Chr 1:5 – Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the LORD. And Solomon and the assembly resorted to it.
2 Chr 6:3 – Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.
2 Chr 6:12 – Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.
2 Chr 6:13 – Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven,
2 Chr 7:8 – At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt.
2 Chr 20:5 – And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
2 Chr 20:14 – And the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly.
2 Chr 23:3 – And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada said to them, "Behold, the king's son! Let him reign, as the LORD spoke concerning the sons of David.
2 Chr 28:14 – So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.
2 Chr 29:23 – Then the goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them,
2 Chr 29:28 – The whole assembly worshiped, and the singers sang and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
2 Chr 29:31 – Then Hezekiah said, "You have now consecrated yourselves to the LORD. Come near; bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD." And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.
2 Chr 29:32 – The number of the burnt offerings that the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
2 Chr 30:2 – For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month–
2 Chr 30:4 – and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.
2 Chr 30:13 – And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
2 Chr 30:17 – For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the LORD.
2 Chr 30:23 – Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness.
2 Chr 30:24 – For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests consecrated themselves in great numbers.
2 Chr 30:25 – The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
Ezra 2:64 – The whole assembly together was 42,360,
Ezra 10:1 – While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.
Ezra 10:8 – and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.
Ezra 10:12 – Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, "It is so; we must do as you have said.
Job 30:28 – I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
Ps 22:22 – I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
Ps 22:25 – From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him.
Ps 26:5 – I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
Ps 35:18 – I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you.
Ps 40:9 – I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O LORD.
Ps 89:5 – Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
Ps 107:32 – Let them extol him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
Ps 149:1 – Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly!
Prov 5:14 – I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation."
Lam 1:10 – The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.
Mic 2:5 – Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
Joel 2:16 – gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.
מַקְהֵל
Ps 26:12 – My foot stands on level ground; in the great assembly I will bless the LORD.
Ps 68:26 – "Bless God in the great congregation, the LORD, O you who are of Israel's fountain!"
לַהֲקָה
1 Sam 19:20 – Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
קְהִלָּה
Neh 5:7 – I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, "You are exacting interest, each from his brother." And I held a great assembly against them
<i>ekklēsiazō</i>, ἐκκλησιάζω (“assemble”), the verb form of <i>ekklēsia</i>, ἐκκλησία ("Church") in the Septuagint
Lev 8:3 – And assemble all the congregation at the entrance of the tent of meeting."
Num 20:8 – "Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle."
Deut 4:10 – how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, 'Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.'
Deut 31:12 – Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,
Deut 31:28 – Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
Josh 18:1 – Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.
1 Kgs 8:1 – Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 Chr 5:2 – Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 Chr 5:3 – And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh month.
2 Chr 11:1 – When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
2 Chr 15:9 – And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
2 Chr 24:6 – So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief and said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?"
Est 4:16 – "Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish."
Related Greek words used in the context of the church
συνάγω (“gather”)
Jn 11:52 – and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Acts 4:31 – And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
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 great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
Acts 14:27 – And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Acts 15:6 – The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.
Acts 15:30 – So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch, and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.
Acts 20:7 – On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
Acts 20:8 – There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
1 Cor 5:4 – When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
ἐπισυνάγω (“gather")
Mt 24:31 – And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mk 13:27 – And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
ἐπισυναγωγή (“gathering”)
2 Thess 2:1 – Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,
Heb 10:25 – not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Words related grammatically to “church” (ἐκκλησία)
Verbs with "Church" (ἐκκλησία) as Subject
To greet, ἀσπάζομαι
Rom 16:16 – Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
1 Cor 16:19 – The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.
To have/be, ἔχω
Acts 9:31 – So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.
To strengthen, στερεόω
Acts 16:5 – So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.
To confound, συγχέω
Acts 19:32 – Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.
To thank, εὐχαριστέω
Rom 16:4 – who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.
To take, λαμβάνω
1 Cor 14:5 – Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.
To assemble, συνέρχομαι
1 Cor 14:23 – If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
To subject, ὑποτάσσω
Eph 5:24 – Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
To participate, κοινωνέω
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.
To burden, βαρέω
1 Tim 5:16 – If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are really widows.
To know, γινώσκω
Rev 2:23 – and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.
Verbs with "Church" (ἐκκλησία) as Object
To greet, ἀσπάζομαι
Acts 18:22 – When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and then went down to Antioch.
Rom 16:3 – Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Rom 16:5 – Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.
Col 4:15 – Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.
To persecute, διώκω
1 Cor 15:9 – For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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.
Phil 3:6 – as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness, under the law blameless.
To build, οἰκοδομέω
Mt 16:18 – And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
1 Cor 14:4 – The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.
To ignore, παρακούω
Mt 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.
To ravage, λυμαίνομαι
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.
To assemble, συνάγω
Acts 14:27 – And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
To strengthen, ἐπιστηρίζω
Acts 15:41 – And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
To release, ἀπολύω
Acts 19:41 – And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly.
To shepherd, ποιμαίνω
Acts 20:28 – Pay careful attention 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 his own blood.
To despise, καταφρονέω
1 Cor 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.
To rob, συλάω
2 Cor 11:8 – I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
To love, ἀγαπάω
Eph 5:25 – Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
To stand by, παρίστημι
Eph 5:27 – so 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.
To care, ἐπιμελέομαι
1 Tim 3:5 – for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?
Verbs with "Church" (ἐκκλησία) as Indirect Object
To speak, λέγω
Rev 2:7 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.'
Rev 2:11 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.'
Rev 2:17 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one 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 that no one knows except the one who receives it.'
Rev 2:29 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Rev 3:6 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Rev 3:13 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Rev 3:22 – He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"
To say, ἔπω, ἐρῶ, εἶπον
Mt 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.
To direct, διατάσσω
1 Cor 16:1 – Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.
To give, δίδωμι
Eph 1:22 – And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
To write, γράφω
3 Jn 1:9 – I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.
To send, πέμπω
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."
Adjectives Modifying "Church" (ἐκκλησία)
All, πᾶς
Rom 16:4 – who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.
Rom 16:16 – Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
1 Cor 4:17 – That is why I sent 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.
1 Cor 7:17 – Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
1 Cor 14:33 – For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.As in all the churches of the saints,
2 Cor 8:18 – With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel.
2 Cor 11:28 – And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.
Rev 2:23 – and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.
Whole, ὅλος
Acts 5:11 – And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things.
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 brothers,
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.
1 Cor 14:23 – If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
To be, εἰμί
Acts 13:1 – Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Under law, ἔννομος
Acts 19:39 – But if you seek anything further, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.
Another, ἄλλος
2 Cor 11:8 – I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
Remaining, λοιπός
2 Cor 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!
No one, οὐδείς
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.
Appositions with "Church" (ἐκκλησία)
The/this/who, ὁ
Acts 8:1 – And Saul approved of his execution.And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Rom 16:1 – I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,
Gal 1:22 – And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
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,
Corinth, Κόρινθος
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
2 Cor 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
Jerusalem, Ἱερουσαλήμ
Acts 11:22 – The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
To sanctify, ἁγιάζω
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
Holy, ἅγιος
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
Judea, Ἰουδαία
1 Thess 2:14 – For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
Foundation, ἑδραίωμα
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
Pillar, στῦλος
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
Prepositions with "Church" (ἐκκλησία)
In/on/among, ἐν
Acts 7:38 – This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.
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 great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
Acts 19:39 – But if you seek anything further, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.
1 Cor 4:17 – That is why I sent 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.
1 Cor 6:4 – So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church?
1 Cor 7:17 – Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
1 Cor 11:18 – For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,
1 Cor 12:28 – And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
1 Cor 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.
1 Cor 14:28 – But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.
1 Cor 14:33 – For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.As in all the churches of the saints,
1 Cor 14:34 – the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.
1 Cor 14:35 – If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
2 Cor 8:1 – We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,
Eph 3:21 – to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Col 4:16 – And when this letter has been read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea.
2 Thess 1:4 – Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.
Upon/to/against, ἐπί
Acts 5:11 – And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things.
Acts 8:1 – And Saul approved of his execution.And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Rev 22:16 – "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star."
By/under, ὑπό
Acts 12:5 – So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
Acts 15:3 – So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
2 Cor 8:19 – And not only that, but he has been appointed by the churches to travel with us as we carry out this act of grace that is being ministered by us, for the glory of the Lord himself and to show our good will.
From, ἀπό
Acts 12:1 – About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church.
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.
According to, κατά
Acts 13:1 – Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen 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 had believed.
With, σύν
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 brothers,
1 Cor 16:19 – The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.
Through/because of, διά
2 Cor 8:18 – With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel.
Eph 3:10 – so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.
Above/for, ὑπέρ
2 Cor 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!
Toward, εἰς
Eph 5:32 – This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Before, ἐνώπιον
3 Jn 1:6 – who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God.
Of/from, ἐκ
3 Jn 1:10 – So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.
… of "Church" (ἐκκλησία)
Angel, ἄγγελος
Rev 1:20 – As for the mystery of the seven stars that 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 2:8 – "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 2:12 – "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.
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 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 reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
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 will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
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.
Elder, πρεσβύτερος
Acts 20:17 – Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him.
Jas 5:14 – Is anyone 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.
Ear, οὖς
Acts 11:22 – The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
Servant, διάκονος
Rom 16:1 – I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,
Foreign, ξένος
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.
Building, οἰκοδομή
1 Cor 14:12 – So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
Apostle, ἀπόστολος
2 Cor 8:23 – As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for your benefit. And as for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.
Face, πρόσωπον
2 Cor 8:24 – So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.
Concern, μέριμνα
2 Cor 11:28 – And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.
Head, κεφαλή
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Imitator, μιμητής
1 Thess 2:14 – For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
Midst, μέσος
Heb 2:12 – saying, "I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."
"Church" (ἐκκλησία) of …
God, θεός
Acts 20:28 – Pay careful attention 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 his own blood.
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
1 Cor 10:32 – Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
1 Cor 11:16 – If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.
1 Cor 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.
1 Cor 15:9 – For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
2 Cor 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
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.
1 Thess 2:14 – For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
2 Thess 1:4 – Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.
1 Tim 3:5 – for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
Galatia, Γαλατία
1 Cor 16:1 – Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.
Gal 1:2 – and all the brothers who are with me,To the churches of Galatia:
Thessalonian, Θεσσαλονικεύς
1 Thess 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.
2 Thess 1:1 – Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
I/we, ἐγώ
Mt 16:18 – And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Gentiles, ἔθνος
Rom 16:4 – who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.
Christ, Χριστός
Rom 16:16 – Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
Holy, ἅγιος
1 Cor 14:33 – For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.As in all the churches of the saints,
Asia, Ἀσία
1 Cor 16:19 – The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.
Macedonia, Μακεδονία
2 Cor 8:1 – We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,
Judea, Ἰουδαία
Gal 1:22 – And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
Laodicean, Λαοδικεύς
Col 4:16 – And when this letter has been read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea.
Firstborn, πρωτότοκος
Heb 12:23 – and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
Verbal Copula of "Church" (ἐκκλησία)
To be, εἰμί
Col 1:24 – Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
1 Tim 3:15 – if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth.
Rev 1:20 – As for the mystery of the seven stars that 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.
… and "Church" (ἐκκλησία)
Aquila, Ἀκύλας
Rom 16:3 – Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Rom 16:5 – Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.
Prisca, Πρίσκα
Rom 16:3 – Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Rom 16:5 – Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.
I/we, ἐγώ
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.
