- And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
- If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
- So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
- Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
- Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.
- Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
- And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
- Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
- For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
- Unless the Lord builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain. - So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.
- Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
- “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
- Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
- But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
- So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
- For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
- Make your face shine on your servant;
save me in your steadfast love! - And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
- Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.
- And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
- And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
- And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
- Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
teach me your paths.Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.