ἐκκλησία

Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.

So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together.

But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.

When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.

Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.

Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

{14.26} to the only wise God through Jesus Christ which is be the glory to the ages Amen to Romans it was written from Corinth through Phoebe the servant the in Cenchrea church.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.

Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?

But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly.”