58 Bible Verses about The Body
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For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with the Church of Christ.
so collectively we form one body in Christ, while individually we are linked to one another as its members.
As for you, you are the body of Christ, and individually you are members of it.
For just as there are in the one human body many parts, and these parts have not all the same function;
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the nostrils be?
Or were the ear to say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," that would not make it any the less a part of the body.
Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;
Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you have from God?
always, wherever we go, carrying with us in our bodies the putting to death of Jesus, so that in our bodies it may also be clearly shown that Jesus lives.
So we have a cheerful confidence, and we anticipate with greater delight being banished from the body and going home to the Lord.
There is but one body and but one Spirit, as also when you were called you had one and the same hope held out to you.
Were the foot to say, "Because I am not a hand I am not a part of the body," that would not make it any the less a part of the body.
Nevertheless, it is not what is spiritual that came first, but what is animal; what is spiritual came afterwards.
and those which we deem less honorable we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our ungraceful parts come to have a more abundant grace, while our graceful parts have everything they need.
an animal body is sown, a spiritual body is raised. As surely as there is an animal body, so there is also a spiritual body.
It is also impossible for the eye to say to the hand, "I do not need you;" or again for the head to say to the feet, "I do not need you."
in order fully to equip His people for the work of serving--for the building up of Christ's body--
(Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?
that there might be no disunion in the body, but that all the members might entertain the same anxious care for one another's welfare.
For although, as you say, I am absent from you in body, yet in spirit I am present with you and am delighted to witness your good discipline and the solid front presented by your faith in Christ.
No, it is quite otherwise. Even those parts of the body which are apparently somewhat feeble are yet indispensable;
But if Christ is in you, though your body must die because of sin, yet your spirit has Life because of righteousness.
Moreover He is the Head of His Body, the Church. He is the Beginning, the Firstborn from among the dead, in order that He Himself may in all things occupy the foremost place.
Since there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; we, all of us, share in that one loaf.
And if one part is suffering, every other part suffers with it; or if one part is receiving special honor, every other part shares in the joy.
"The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eyesight is good, your whole body will be well lighted;
And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.
But to each of us a manifestation of the Spirit has been granted for the common good.
But, as a matter of fact, God has arranged the parts in the body--every one of them--as He has seen fit.
"And do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
For we must all of us appear before Christ's judgement-seat in our true characters, in order that each may then receive an award for his actions in this life, in accordance with what he has done, whether it be good or whether it be worthless.
For, in fact, in one Spirit all of us--whether we are Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free men--were baptized to form but one body; and we were all nourished by that one Spirit.
Such a one does not keep his hold upon Christ, the Head, from whom the Body, in all its parts nourished and strengthened by its points of contact and its connections, grows with a divine growth.
I know a Christian man who fourteen years ago-- whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know; God knows--was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking)
There are bodies which are celestial and there are bodies which are earthly, but the glory of the celestial ones is one thing, and that of the earthly ones is another.
And I know that this man-- whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know;
These were a shadow of things that were soon to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;
Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."
the completeness of Him who everywhere fills the universe with Himself.
who, in the exercise of the power which He has even to subject all things to Himself, will transform this body of our humiliation until it resembles His own glorious body.
For if you so live, death is near; but if, through being under the sway of the spirit, you are putting your old bodily habits to death, you will live.
It is through that divine will that we have been set free from sin, through the offering of Jesus Christ as our sacrifice once for all.
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And more than that, we ourselves, though we possess the Spirit as a foretaste and pledge of the glorious future, yet we ourselves inwardly sigh, as we wait and long for open recognition as sons through the deliverance of our bodies.
Topics on The Body
Altering The Body
1 Timothy 2:9-10and I would have the women dress becomingly, with modesty and self-control, not with plaited hair or gold or pearls or costly clothes,
Cleansing The Body
Acts 22:16And now why delay? Rise, get yourself baptized, and wash off your sins, calling upon His name.'
Covering The Body
Acts 12:8"Fasten your girdle," said the angel, "and tie on your sandals." He did so. Then the angel said, "Throw your cloak round you, and follow me."
Damage To The Body
Matthew 6:23but if your eyesight is bad, your whole body will be dark. If however the very light within you is darkness, how dense must the darkness be!
Limitations Of The Body
Romans 4:19And, without growing weak in faith, he could contemplate his own vital powers which had now decayed--for he was nearly 100 years old--and Sarah's barrenness.
Provision For The Body
Ephesians 5:29For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;
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