17 Bible Verses about Body Of Christ, The Church

For we indeed have many members in one body, but all the members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and members one of another.

There is one body and one Spirit, as ye indeed are called in one hope of your calling;

Now I rejoice in sufferings in your behalf, and am filling up the residue of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh in behalf of his body, which is the church;

and himself is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the first begotten from the dead, in order that in all things himself may be preeminent:

and has subordinated all things beneath his feet, and given him to be head over all things to the church,

because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

Jesus responded and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will rear it up. Then the Jews said, Forty and six years was this temple being built, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But He spoke concerning the temple of His body.read more.
Then when He arose from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said these things, and believed the Scripture and words which Jesus spoke.

Then therefore you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and members of the household of God, having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the entire edifice, being assimilated, increases into a holy temple in the Lord;read more.
in whom also you are built together into a habitation of God in the Spirit.

for so many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

and not holding the Head, from which the entire body, by joints and ligaments being supplied and knitted together, increases the increase of God.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? Because we, being many, are one bread, one body: for we all partake of one bread.

but speaking the truth in divine love, let its grow up in him in all things, who is the head, Christ; from whom the whole body, being assimilated and knitted together through every joint of the supply, according to the working in each several part, makes increase of the body in the edification of itself in divine love.

Therefore, having laid aside lying, speak the truth each one with his neighbors: because we are members of one another.

for no one ever yet hated his own flesh; but he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church; because we are members of his body:

And let the peace of Christ reign in your hearts, in which you are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

But having gifts differing according to the grace given unto us, whether prophecy, it is according to the analogy of faith; or ministry, it is in the ministry; or he that teacheth, in teaching; or he that exhorteth, in exhortation; or he that giveth, with a single eye; he that presideth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.

And he gave some, apostles; some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; unto the perfection of the saints, in the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ: until we may all come into the unity of the faith, and of the perfect knowledge of the Son of God, into a perfect man, into the measure of the likeness of the fulness of Christ: