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The churches in the province of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Priscilla greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all his holy people throughout Achaia:

For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.

And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,

His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,

to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

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

and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—

This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.

as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.

Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only;

And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.

Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.

After this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea.

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

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