Leaving Church

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.

And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

which is not another gospel: only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. — read the full passage →

but these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life in his name.

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone through the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water.

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; — read the full passage →

Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises. — read the full passage →

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts; — read the full passage →

Even so ye also, when ye see these things coming to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh. — read the full passage →

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing to them in all things; not gainsaying;

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

A factious man after a first and second admonition refuse;

If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; — read the full passage →

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to them day by day those that were saved.

And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican.

And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, — read the full passage →

Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son. — read the full passage →

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

She that is in Babylon, elect together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Mark my son.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone; — read the full passage →

and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

But as touching the dead, that they are raised; have ye not read in the book of Moses, in the place concerning the Bush, how God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There are some here of them that stand by, who shall in no wise taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God come with power.

Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned. — read the full passage →

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive, After three days I rise again.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

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

but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, — read the full passage →

And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, and besought him to come into his house; — read the full passage →

Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was priced, whom certain of the children of Israel did price; — read the full passage →

and came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, that he should be called a Nazarene.

And he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand.

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

And he said unto them, Did ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, he, and they that were with him? — read the full passage →

Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way;

for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.