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and he hath subjected all things under his feet; and hath given him who is high over all, to be the head of the church;

so that, by means of the church, the manifold wisdom of God might become known to the principalities and powers that are in heaven:

to him be glory, in his church, by Jesus the Messiah, in all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.

Because the husband is the head of the wife, even as the Messiah is the head of the church; and he is the vivifier of the body.

And as the church is subject to the Messiah, so also let wives be to their husbands in all things.

Husbands, love your wives, even as the Messiah loved his church, and delivered himself up for it;

and might constitute it a glorious church for himself, in which is no stain, and no wrinkle, and nothing like them; but that it might be holy and without blemish.

For no one ever hated his own body; but nourisheth it, and provideth for it, even as the Messiah the church.

This is a great mystery; but I am speaking of the Messiah, and of his church.

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; and as to the righteousness of the law, I was without fault.

And he is the head of the body the church; as he is the head and first-born from among the dead, that he might be the first in all things.

And I rejoice in the sufferings which are for your sakes; and, in my flesh, I fill up the deficiency in the afflictions of the Messiah, in behalf of his body, which is the church;

Salute ye the brethren in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church in his house.

And when this epistle shall have been read among you, cause it to be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that which is written from Laodicea, do ye read.

I PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father and in our Lord Jesus the Messiah: Grace be with you, and peace.

PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians, which is in God our Father and our Lord Jesus the Messiah:

For if he knoweth not how to guide his own house well, how can he guide the church of God.

but if I should delay, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God. ‡1 The pillar and the foundation of the truth,

If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them support them; and let them not be a burden on the church; so that there may be a sufficiency for such as are really widows.

and to our beloved Apphia, and to Archippus a laborer with us, and to the church in thy house.