Leaving Church

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

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

Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. — read the full passage →

But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →

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

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

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: — read the full passage →

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established 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 yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

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

So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. — read the full passage →

Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction 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 my Father.

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

A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome 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 to good works: — read the full passage →

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

But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, — read the full passage →

Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. — read the full passage →

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus 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 he received of us.

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

And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush 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, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.

Then spake Jesus to the multitude, 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 in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. — read the full passage →

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh 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 will rise again.

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

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

Now I beseech you, brethren, by 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 perfectly joined 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 that he would come into his house: — read the full passage →

Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; — read the full passage →

And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.

And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

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

As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.