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 with Christ.
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—
Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
because we are members of his body.
And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
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