The Church
46 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
25 sections
- Believers Continually Added To, by the Lord
- Belongs to God
- Christ, the Foundation-Stone of
- Christ, the Head of
- Clothed in Righteousness
- Defiling of, Will be Punished
- Displays the Wisdom of God
- Elect
- Extent of, Predicted
- Glorious
- Glory to be Ascribed to God By
- God Defends
- God Provides Ministers For
- Loved by Christ
- Ministers Commanded to Feed
- Not to be Despised
- Purchased by the Blood of Christ
- Saints Baptised Into, by One Spirit
- Sanctified and Cleansed by Christ
- Shows Forth the Praises of God
- Subject to Christ
- The Body of Christ
- The Object of the Grace of God
- The Wicked Persecute
- Unity of
Believers Continually Added To, by the Lord
- Acts 2:27 because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- Acts 5:14 Yet more and more believers were brought to the Lord — large numbers of both men and women.
- Acts 11:24 Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
Belongs to God
- 1 Timothy 3:15 in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
Christ, the Foundation-Stone of
- 1 Corinthians 3:11 For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
- Ephesians 2:20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
- 1 Peter 2:4–5 As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight, …
Christ, the Head of
- Ephesians 1:22 And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
- Ephesians 5:23 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.
Clothed in Righteousness
- Revelation 19:8 She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure.” For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints.
Defiling of, Will be Punished
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Displays the Wisdom of God
- Ephesians 3:10 His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,
Elect
- 1 Peter 5:13 The church in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you greetings, as does my son Mark.
Extent of, Predicted
- Isaiah 2:2 In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
- Ezekiel 17:22–24 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take a shoot from the lofty top of the cedar, and I will set it out. I will pluck a tender sprig from its topmost shoots, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. …
- Daniel 2:34–35 As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them. …
- Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
Glorious
- Psalm 45:13 All glorious is the princess in her chamber; her gown is embroidered with gold.
- Ephesians 5:27 and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
Glory to be Ascribed to God By
- Ephesians 3:21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
God Defends
- Psalm 89:18 Surely our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 4:5 Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
- Isaiah 49:25 Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.
- Matthew 16:18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
God Provides Ministers For
- Jeremiah 3:15 Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
- Ephesians 4:11–12 And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, …
Loved by Christ
- Song of Solomon 7:10 I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.
- Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
Ministers Commanded to Feed
- Acts 20:28 Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
Not to be Despised
- 1 Corinthians 11:22 Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!
Purchased by the Blood of Christ
- Acts 20:28 Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
- Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
- Hebrews 9:12 He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
Saints Baptised Into, by One Spirit
- 1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
Sanctified and Cleansed by Christ
- 1 Corinthians 6:11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
- Ephesians 5:26–27 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, …
Shows Forth the Praises of God
- Isaiah 60:6 Caravans of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah, and all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and frankincense and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.
Subject to Christ
- Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
- Ephesians 5:24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
The Body of Christ
- Ephesians 1:23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
- Colossians 1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.
The Object of the Grace of God
- Isaiah 27:3 I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;
- 2 Corinthians 8:1 Now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the churches of Macedonia.
The Wicked Persecute
- Acts 8:1–3 And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. …
- 1 Thessalonians 2:14–15 For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews, …
Unity of
- Romans 12:5 so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.
- 1 Corinthians 10:17 Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.
- 1 Corinthians 12:12 The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.
- Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Union with ChristTemple of Christ, the Head of the Ekklesia (His Community, his Body, Cf
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.