Bible Verses about โfinding a churchโ
The Bible contains 45 verses about finding a church across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โPeter 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.โ
โnot 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.โ
โBe imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.โ
โNow I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.โ
โTake 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.โ
โHe who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.โ
โFor my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.โ
โBecause Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;โ
โThis 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,โ
โThis is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."โ
โAs the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.โ
โJesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.โ
โThis is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.โ
โHe who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.โ
โwho before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.โ
โin which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,โ
โIt is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.โ
โHe said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.โ
โwho is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.โ
โJesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"โ
โI am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."โ
โNow he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.โ
โJesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?"โ
โSimon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.โ
โWe have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."โ
โNow I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.โ
โbut if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.โ
โbut to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,โ
โBut there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.โ
โHe said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."โ
โTherefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"โ
โBut Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?โ
โThen what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?โ
โAt this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.โ
โThe Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"โ
โThese things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;โ
โto those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;โ
โwho "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"โ
โMost certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.โ
โfor he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.โ
โI am the bread of life.โ
โYour fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.โ
โMy spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,โ
โThey are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.โ
โFor he who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name.โ
