Bible Verses About Church Membership
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for church membership, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,556 votes, led by Romans 12:4-5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Church Membership
Romans 12:4-5146 votes
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
Hebrews 10:25114 votes
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Acts 20:28107 votes
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Acts 2:47106 votes
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Acts 2:4287 votes
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Romans 12:583 votes
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Hebrews 13:1780 votes
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Ephesians 2:19-2276 votes
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Ephesians 4:12-1665 votes
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
1 Corinthians 12:12-2763 votes
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
1 Peter 2:563 votes
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Acts 6:1-1555 votes
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Romans 15:5-747 votes
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 3:1043 votes
To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
Acts 2:4141 votes
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
John 4:2340 votes
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
1 Corinthians 12:1240 votes
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:10-1339 votes
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Matthew 16:1837 votes
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 18:1736 votes
And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Hebrews 10:24-2534 votes
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
1 Corinthians 12:2727 votes
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Ephesians 4:1227 votes
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Ephesians 5:2326 votes
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
1 Timothy 3:1526 votes
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.
What does the Bible say about church membership?
Readers most often cite Romans 12:4-5 on the subject of church membership. Across 2,556 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 10:25, Acts 20:28, Acts 2:47. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.