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ἐκκλησίαekklēsía
GreekG1577118 occurrences (KJV)

a calling out, i.e. (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue, or Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both)

KJV renders it: assembly, church

Where it appears(showing the first 115 of 118)

  • Matt 16:18I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
  • Matt 18:17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
  • Acts 2:47praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
  • Acts 5:11Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.
  • Acts 7:38This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
  • Acts 8:1Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
  • Acts 8:3But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.
  • Acts 9:31So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
  • Acts 11:22The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,
  • Acts 11:26When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
  • Acts 12:1Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
  • Acts 12:5Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
  • Acts 13:1Now 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.
  • Acts 14:23When 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.
  • Acts 14:27When 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.
  • Acts 15:3They, 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.
  • Acts 15:4When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.
  • Acts 15:22Then 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.
  • Acts 15:41He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.
  • Acts 16:5So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.
  • Acts 18:22When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.
  • Acts 19:32Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together.
  • Acts 19:39But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.
  • Acts 19:41When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
  • Acts 20:17From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
  • Acts 20:28Take 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.
  • Rom 16:1I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,
  • Rom 16:4who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.
  • Rom 16:5Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.
  • Rom 16:16Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.
  • Rom 16:23Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.
  • Rom 16:27
  • 1 Cor 1:2to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
  • 1 Cor 4:17Because 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.
  • 1 Cor 6:4If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?
  • 1 Cor 7:17Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
  • 1 Cor 10:32Give no occasion for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
  • 1 Cor 11:16But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.
  • 1 Cor 11:18For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
  • 1 Cor 11:22What, 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? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.
  • 1 Cor 12:28God 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.
  • 1 Cor 14:4He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.
  • 1 Cor 14:5Now 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.
  • 1 Cor 14:12So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.
  • 1 Cor 14:19However 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.
  • 1 Cor 14:23If 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?
  • 1 Cor 14:28But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.
  • 1 Cor 14:33for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
  • 1 Cor 14:34Let the women be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,
  • 1 Cor 14:35if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to be talking in the assembly.”
  • 1 Cor 15:9For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
  • 1 Cor 16:1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.
  • 1 Cor 16:19The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house.
  • 2 Cor 1:1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
  • 2 Cor 8:1Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;
  • 2 Cor 8:18We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known through all the assemblies.
  • 2 Cor 8:19Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.
  • 2 Cor 8:23As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.
  • 2 Cor 8:24Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.
  • 2 Cor 11:8I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
  • 2 Cor 11:28Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.
  • 2 Cor 12:13For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.
  • Gal 1:2and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:
  • Gal 1:13For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.
  • Gal 1:22I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,
  • Eph 1:22He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
  • Eph 3:10to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
  • Eph 3:21to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
  • Eph 5:23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
  • Eph 5:24But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
  • Eph 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
  • Eph 5:27that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.
  • Eph 5:29For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
  • Eph 5:32This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
  • Phil 3:6concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
  • Phil 4:15You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
  • Col 1:18He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
  • Col 1:24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;
  • Col 4:15Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house.
  • Col 4:16When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans; and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.
  • 1 Th 1:1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Th 2:14For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;
  • 2 Th 1:1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:
  • 2 Th 1:4so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
  • 1 Tim 3:5(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)
  • 1 Tim 3:15but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
  • 1 Tim 5:16If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.
  • 2 Tim 4:22The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
  • Titus 3:15All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
  • Phlm 1:2to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:
  • Heb 2:12saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. Among of the congregation I will sing your praise.”
  • Heb 12:23to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
  • Jas 5:14Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
  • 3 Jn 1:6They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,
  • 3 Jn 1:9I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.
  • 3 Jn 1:10Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
  • Rev 1:4John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;
  • Rev 1:11saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
  • Rev 1:20the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.
  • Rev 2:1“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:
  • Rev 2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
  • Rev 2:8“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:
  • Rev 2:11He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.
  • Rev 2:12“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:
  • Rev 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
  • Rev 2:18“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:
  • Rev 2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
  • Rev 2:29He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
  • Rev 3:1“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
  • Rev 3:6He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
  • Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
  • Rev 3:13He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
  • Rev 3:14“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God’s creation, says these things:
  • Rev 3:22He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.”
  • Rev 22:16I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star.”

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.