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What is the correct biblical name for God's church? There are twelve New Testament scriptures indicating the name by which God’s true Church is known.

Five of these scriptures refer to the Church as a whole:

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(1) Acts 20:28: This verse is instruction to the elders to “feed THE CHURCH OF GOD.”

(2) I Corinthians 10:32: “Give none offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the 

Gentiles,  nor to THE CHURCH OF GOD.” 

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(3) I Corinthians 11:22: “...or despise you THE CHURCH OF GOD, and shame them that have not?”

(4) I Corinthians 15:9: Paul wrote the same thing  to two 

congregations: “For...I  persecuted THE CHURCH OF GOD.”

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(5) Galatians 1:13: “I persecuted THE CHURCH OF GOD.”

(6) I Corinthians 1:2: “THE CHURCH OF GOD which is at Corinth.”

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(7) II Corinthians 1:1: “THE CHURCH OF GOD which is at Corinth.”

(8) I Timothy 3:5: Paul references  any elder in a local  congregation: “For if a man  know not how to rule 

his  own house, how shall he take  care of THE CHURCH OF GOD?”

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(9) I Timothy 3:15: “...behave yourself in the house of God, which is THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD.” This verse adds a  descriptive word to God by  using the term “living.”

(10) I Corinthians 11:16: “...We have no such  custom,   neither THE CHURCHES OF GOD.”

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(11) I Thessalonians 2:14: “For you...became  followers of THE CHURCHES  OF GOD which in Judea are  in Christ Jesus.”

(12) II Thessalonians 1:4:  “So that we ourselves glory  in you in THE CHURCHES OF GOD.”