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:

(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.”

(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.”

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

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

(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?”

(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.”

(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.”