'Body' in the Bible
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell!
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness—how deep is that darkness!
“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
By pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she has prepared Me for burial.
As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take and eat it; this is My body.”
He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. Then Pilate ordered that it be released.
So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in clean, fine linen,
Instantly her flow of blood ceased, and she sensed in her body that she was cured of her affliction.
She has done what she could; she has anointed My body in advance for burial.
As they were eating, He took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is My body.”
Now a certain young man, having a linen cloth wrapped around his naked body, was following Him. They caught hold of him,
Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Sanhedrin who was himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, came and boldly went in to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body.
Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light. But when it is bad, your body is also full of darkness.
If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be entirely illuminated, as when a lamp shines its light on you.”
“And I say to you, My friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.
Then He said to His disciples: “Therefore I tell you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.
For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.
There in front of Him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.
And He took bread, gave thanks, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “This is My body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.”
He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body.
The women who had come with Him from Galilee followed along and observed the tomb and how His body was placed.
They went in but did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
and when they didn’t find His body, they came and reported that they had seen a vision of angels who said He was alive.
But He was speaking about the sanctuary of His body.
After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus—but secretly because of his fear of the Jews—asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and took His body away.
Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the aromatic spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.
She saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet, where Jesus’ body had been lying.
The young men got up, wrapped his body, carried him out, and buried him.
Then Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down, prayed, and turning toward the body said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, saw Peter, and sat up.
He considered his own body to be already dead (since he was about 100 years old) and also considered the deadness of Sarah’s womb, without weakening in the faith.
For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin’s dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.
Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the crucified body of the Messiah, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—that we may bear fruit for God.
But I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body?
Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Now as we have many parts in one body, and all the parts do not have the same function,
in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.
For though I am absent in body but present in spirit, I have already decided about the one who has done this thing as though I were present.
“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.
Run from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.
Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.
A wife does not have the right over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband does not have the right over his own body, but his wife does.
and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.
Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
The cup of blessing that we give thanks for, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?
Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for all of us share that one bread.
gave thanks, broke it, and said, “This is My body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.”
Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy way will be guilty of sin against the body and blood of the Lord.
For whoever eats and drinks without recognizing the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself.
For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ.
For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
So the body is not one part but many.
If the foot should say, “Because I’m not a hand, I don’t belong to the body,” in spite of this it still belongs to the body.
And if the ear should say, “Because I’m not an eye, I don’t belong to the body,” in spite of this it still belongs to the body.
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
But now God has placed each one of the parts in one body just as He wanted.
And if they were all the same part, where would the body be?
Now there are many parts, yet one body.
But even more, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary.
And those parts of the body that we think to be less honorable, we clothe these with greater honor, and our unpresentable parts have a better presentation.
But our presentable parts have no need of clothing. Instead, God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the less honorable,
so that there would be no division in the body, but that the members would have the same concern for each other.
Now you are the body of Christ, and individual members of it.
And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,and if I give my body in order to boastbut do not have love, I gain nothing.
But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?”
And as for what you sow—you are not sowing the future body, but only a seed, perhaps of wheat or another grain.
But God gives it a body as He wants, and to each of the seeds its own body.
sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body.If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
So, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.
and we are confident and satisfied to be out of the body and at home with the Lord.
For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or worthless.
I know a man in Christ who was caught up into the third heaven 14 years ago. Whether he was in the body or out of the body, I don’t know, God knows.
I know that this man—whether in the body or out of the body I don’t know, God knows—
From now on, let no one cause me trouble, because I bear on my body scars for the cause of Jesus.
which is His body, the fullness of the One who fills all things in every way.
He did this so that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross and put the hostility to death by it.
The Gentiles are coheirs, members of the same body, and partners of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope at your calling—
for the training of the saints in the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ,
From Him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part.
for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.
since we are members of His body.
My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of His glorious body, by the power that enables Him to subject everything to Himself.
He is also the head of the body, the church;He is the beginning,the firstborn from the dead,so that He might come to havefirst place in everything.
But now He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him—
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for His body, that is, the church.
For I may be absent in body, but I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see how well ordered you are and the strength of your faith in Christ.
You were also circumcised in Him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh, in the circumcision of the Messiah.
He doesn’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, develops with growth from God.
Although these have a reputation of wisdom by promoting ascetic practices, humility, and severe treatment of the body, they are not of any value in curbing self-indulgence.
And let the peace of the Messiah, to which you were also called in one body, control your hearts. Be thankful.
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