Bible Verses about “the local church”
The Bible contains 13 verses about the local church across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“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.”
“so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.”
“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.”
“They continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.”
“For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,”
“Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;”
“For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.”
“For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.”
“For the body is not one member, but many.”
“I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.”
“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,”
“to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:”