Bible Verses about โhouse churchesโ
The Bible contains 40 verses about house churches across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โHaving gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;โ
โFor where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them."โ
โso we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.โ
โNow I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.โ
โor service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;โ
โor he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.โ
โThey continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.โ
โFor even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,โ
โWhat is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.โ
โDay by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,โ
โSuddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.โ
โFor those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.โ
โI commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,โ
โGreet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.โ
โthat you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.โ
โFor your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.โ
โAnd the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.โ
โGreet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,โ
โwho for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.โ
โGreet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.โ
โGreet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.โ
โEvery day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.โ
โGreet Mary, who labored much for us.โ
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โThe assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house.โ
โhow I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,โ
โGreet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord.โ
โGreet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.โ
โGreet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.โ
โGreet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.โ
โGreet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.โ
โGreet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.โ
โGreet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.โ
โGreet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.โ
โTimothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.โ
โI, Tertius, who write the letter, greet you in the Lord.โ
โGaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.โ
โThe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all! Amen.โ
โGreet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house.โ
โto the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:โ
