Study Desk

For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it;

and he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church,

that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places.

to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to 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, and is himself its Savior.

As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.

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

that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,

This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church;

as to zeal a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the law blameless.

And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedo'nia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving except you only;

He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

Give my greetings to the brethren at La-odice'a, and to Nympha and the church in her house.

And when this letter has been read among you, have it read also in the church of the La-odice'ans; and see that you read also the letter from La-odice'a.

Paul, Silva'nus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalo'nians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

Paul, Silva'nus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalo'nians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

for if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for God's church?

if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.