Bible Verses about โemerging churchโ
The Bible contains 40 verses about emerging church across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โEvery Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,โ
โDon't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.โ
โFor all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.โ
โFor men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,โ
โLet no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.โ
โthat the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.โ
โholding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.โ
โThe world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.โ
โBut know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.โ
โtraitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;โ
โwithout natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,โ
โFor the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;โ
โFor bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.โ
โBut the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,โ
โLittle children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.โ
โYou have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.โ
โThey went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.โ
โFrom infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.โ
โFor every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.โ
โBut refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.โ
โalways learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.โ
โFor some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,โ
โBut you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.โ
โYes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.โ
โFor it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.โ
โforbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.โ
โEven as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.โ
โBut evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.โ
โBut they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.โ
โBut you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,โ
โpersecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.โ
โthrough the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;โ
โDon't neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.โ
โUntil I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.โ
โPay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.โ
โBe diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.โ
โThis saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.โ
โCommand and teach these things.โ
โIf you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.โ
โFor to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.โ
