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That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the principalities and powers in heavenly places through the church,

To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, unto all generations, world without end. Amen.

Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.

Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it:

That he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church:

This is a great sacrament: but I speak in Christ and in the church.

According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.

And you also know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but you only.

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the primacy:

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:

Salute the brethren who are at Laodicea: and Nymphas and the church that is in his house.

And when this epistle shall have been read with you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that you read that which is of the Laodiceans.

Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians: in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians. In God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

If any of the faithful have widows, let him minister to them, and let not the church be charged: that there may be sufficient for them that are widows indeed.

And to Appia, our dearest sister, and to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the church which is in thy house.