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And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death 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.

And great fear came upon the whole church, and upon all who heard of these things.

And Saul was consenting to his death. And on that day a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the region of Judea and Sama'ria, except the apostles.

But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.

So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Sama'ria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied.

News of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church, and taught a large company of people; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians.

About that time Herod the king laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church.

So Peter was kept in prison; but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.

Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyre'ne, Man'a-en a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they believed.

And when they arrived, they gathered the church together and declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoeni'cia and Sama'ria, reporting the conversion of the Gentiles, and they gave great joy to all the brethren.

When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsab'bas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren,

When he had landed at Caesare'a, he went up and greeted the church, and then went down to Antioch.

And from Mile'tus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church.

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deaconess of the church at Cen'chre-ae,