Purpose Of The Church

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

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

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: — read the full passage →

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, — read the full passage →

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching. — read the full passage →

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly, — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. — read the full passage →

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. — read the full passage →

These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly; — read the full passage →

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; — read the full passage →

All who believed were together, and had all things in common. — read the full passage →

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

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

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; — read the full passage →

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, — read the full passage →

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. — read the full passage →

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel: — read the full passage →

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. — read the full passage →

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you. — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! — read the full passage →

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. — read the full passage →

He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship Yahweh in holy array.

and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from your midst, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” — read the full passage →

The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, — read the full passage →

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. — read the full passage →

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. — read the full passage →