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For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it;

And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and made Him head over all things to the church,

so that the multifaceted wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.

to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.

But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.

You yourselves also know, Philippians, that at the first preaching of the gospel, after I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone;

He is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am supplementing what is lacking in Christ's afflictions in behalf of His body, which is the church.

I was made a minister of this church according to the commission from God granted to me for your benefit, so that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God,

Greet the brothers and sisters who are in Laodicea and also Nympha and the church that is in her house.

When this letter is read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and you, for your part, read my letter that is coming from Laodicea.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),