42)  And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

43)  And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.

44)  And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

45)  and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

46)  And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

47)  praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

Acts 8:1

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Acts 11:26

And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

Acts 11:29-30

29)  Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judea:

30)  which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

Acts 20:7

And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

Colossians 3:16-17

16)  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

17)  And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

I Corinthians 1:10

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
 
 

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1 Corinthians 10:15-17

15)  I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

16)  The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

17)  For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

1 Corinthians 11:18-34

18)  For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

19)  For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

20)  When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.

21)  For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

22)  What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

23)  For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread:

24)  and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat; this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

25)  After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

26)  For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come.

27)  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

28)  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

29)  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

30)  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

31)  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

32)  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

33)  Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

34)  And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
 

I Corinthians 14:33

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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22) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

23) Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Ephesians 4

1)  I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

2)  with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love;

3)  endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4)  There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

5)  one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6)  one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

7)  But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

8)  Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive,
and gave gifts unto men.

9)  (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

10)  He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

11)  And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

12)  for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

13)  till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

14)  that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

15)  but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

16)  from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

17)  This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

18)  having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

19)  who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

20)  But ye have not so learned Christ;

21)  if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

22)  that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

23)  and be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

24)  and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

25)  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor:  for we are members one of another.

26)  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

27)  neither give place to the devil.

28)  Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

29)  Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

30)  And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

31)  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

32)  and be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Ephesians 5:19-21

19)  speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

20)  giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

21)  submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Galatians 1:6-8

6) I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

7) Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

8) But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Hebrews 10:22-25

22) let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

23) Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised;

24) and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

25) not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

John 4:24

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

John 17

1) These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

2) As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

3) And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

4) I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

5) And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

6) I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

7) Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

8) For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

9) I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

10) And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

11) And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

12) While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

13) And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

14) I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

15) I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

16) They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17) Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

18) As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

19) And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

20) Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

21) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

22) And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

23) I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

24) Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

25) O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

26) And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
 

2 John 9

Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

Matthew 16:18

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Revelation 22:18-19

18) For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

19) And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

I Timothy 2:1-8

1)  I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

2)  for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

3)  For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

4)  who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

5)  For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

6)  who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

7)  Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not,) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.

8)  I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

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15) And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

16) All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17) That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

Titus 2:3-5

3) The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

4) that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

5) to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.