Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of 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,
because we are members of his body.
so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
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.
which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
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.
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