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TDNT Reference: 3:501,394
Trench's Synonyms: i. Ἐκκλησία, συναγωγή, πανήγυρις.
Strong's Number G1577 matches the Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsia),
which occurs 118 times in 115 verses
in the TR Greek.
Page 1 / 3 (Mat 16:18–1Co 14:35)
“And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
“If he doesn’t pay attention to them, tell the church.[fn] If he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like a Gentile and a tax collector to you.
praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. Every day the Lord added to their number[fn] those who were being saved.
“He is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors. He received living oracles to give to us.
Saul agreed with putting him to death.
On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.
Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.
So the church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
and when he found him he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught large numbers. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, a close friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
When they had appointed elders for them in every church and prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
After they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported everything God had done with them and that he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
When they had been sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and they brought great joy to all the brothers and sisters.
When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.
Then the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, decided to select men who were among them and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas, both leading men among the brothers.
On landing at Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and greeted the church, then went down to Antioch.
Some were shouting one thing and some another, because the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.
“Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God,[fn] which he purchased with his own blood.
who risked their own necks for my life. Not only do I thank them, but so do all the Gentile churches.
Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus greet you.[fn]
to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ — to him be the glory forever![fn] Amen.
To the church of God at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord — both their Lord and ours.
This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dearly loved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you about my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.
So if you have such matters, do you appoint as your judges those who have no standing in the church?
Let each one live his life in the situation the Lord assigned when God called him.[fn] This is what I command in all the churches.
If anyone wants to argue about this, we have no other[fn] custom, nor do the churches of God.
For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
Don’t you have homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you in this matter!
And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, leading, various kinds of tongues.[fn]
The person who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.
I wish all of you spoke in tongues,[fn] but even more that you prophesied. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be built up.
So also you — since you are zealous for spiritual gifts,[fn] seek to excel in building up the church.
yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, in order to teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
If, therefore, the whole church assembles together and all are speaking in tongues and people who are outsiders or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
But if there is no interpreter, that person is to keep silent in the church and speak to himself and God.
since God is not a God of disorder but of peace.
As in all the churches of the saints,
the women[fn] should be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but are to submit themselves, as the law also says.
1. Mat 16:18–1Co 14:35
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