Joining The Local Church

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office, — read the full passage →

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place--both theirs and ours:

And himself is the head of the body--the assembly--who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all <FI>things<Fi> --himself--first,

praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God, — read the full passage →

And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant; — read the full passage →

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

(and if any one his own house <FI>how<Fi> to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

`And if he may not hear them, say <FI>it<Fi> to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

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

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also <FI>is<Fi> the Christ,

Peter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him,

and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.

and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth <FI>thee<Fi> to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God--a pillar and foundation of the truth,

And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you, — read the full passage →

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly <FI>places<Fi> , through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! -- — read the full passage →

so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

And from Miletus, having sent to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the assembly,

and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ; — read the full passage →

unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly, — read the full passage →

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

And I commend you to Phebe our sister--being a ministrant of the assembly that <FI>is<Fi> in Cenchrea--

then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,

and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching, — read the full passage →

Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants;

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly, — read the full passage →

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers,

for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,

And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

and having come and gathered together the assembly, they declared as many things as God did with them, and that He did open to the nations a door of faith;

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

`And to the messenger of the assembly in Pergamos write: These things saith he who is having the sharp two-edged sword:

I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them--Diotrephes--doth not receive us;

Salute you doth the <FI>assembly<Fi> in Babylon jointly elected, and Markus my son.

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

salute ye those in Laodicea--brethren, and Nymphas, and the assembly in his house;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

to Him <FI>is<Fi> the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.

If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

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

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly,

and the disciples having taken him, by night did let him down by the wall, letting down in a basket. — read the full passage →

for as yet he was fallen upon none of them, and only they have been baptized--to the name of the Lord Jesus; — read the full passage →

and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison;

`I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

saying, `I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;'

and Apphia the beloved, and Archippus our fellow-soldier, and the assembly in thy house:

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

for God is not <FI>a God<Fi> of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

he said unto them, `The Holy Spirit did ye receive--having believed?' and they said unto him, `But we did not even hear whether there is any Holy Spirit;' — read the full passage →

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

John answered, saying to all, `I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals--he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;

And the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Therefore I have not been ashamed, Therefore I have set my face as a flint, And I know that I am not ashamed.

`And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness--the faithful and true--the chief of the creation of God;

`And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!

And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead;

`And to the messenger of the assembly of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who is having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass;

`And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live;

`To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands--the golden: — read the full passage →

`To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands--the golden:

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; — read the full passage →

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee; — read the full passage →

The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,