{
  "title": "The Church",
  "description": "The church is the body of Christ, the dwelling place of God's Spirit, with divine appointments for the fulfillment of her great commission. Each believer, born of the Spirit, is an integral part of the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven.",
  "verses": [
    {
      "from": "Acts 2:42-47",
      "data": "And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.",
      "version": "web"
    },
    {
      "from": "1 Corinthians 12:12-27",
      "data": "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is also with Christ. ... If one member suffers, all members suffer together, and if one member is honored, all members rejoice together.",
      "version": "web"
    },
    {
      "from": "Ephesians 2:19-22",
      "data": "So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.",
      "version": "web"
    },
    {
      "from": "Hebrews 10:24-25",
      "data": "And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.",
      "version": "web"
    },
    {
      "from": "1 Peter 2:4-5",
      "data": "Come as living stones, built up as a spiritual house to be holy priests, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it is written, 'Behold, I lay in Zion a chosen stone, a cornerstone, precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.'",
      "version": "web"
    },
    {
      "from": "Matthew 16:18",
      "data": "And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.",
      "version": "web"
    },
    {
      "from": "Colossians 1:18",
      "data": "He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might have preeminence.",
      "version": "web"
    },
    {
      "from": "Romans 12:4-5",
      "data": "For just as we have many members in one body, and all the members do not have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.",
      "version": "web"
    },
    {
      "from": "1 Corinthians 1:2",
      "data": "To the church of God that is at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.",
      "version": "web"
    },
    {
      "from": "Ephesians 4:11-13",
      "data": "And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.",
      "version": "web"
    }
  ]
}