'Body' in the Bible
and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.
namely, that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,
From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body grows in love.
because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church -- he himself being the savior of the body.
For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,
for we are members of his body.
My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.
Now if I am to go on living in the body, this will mean productive work for me, yet I don't know which I prefer:
who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.
He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.
but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him --
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body -- for the sake of his body, the church -- what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your morale and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
In him you also were circumcised -- not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.
He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and false humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body -- a wisdom with no true value -- they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.
Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart (for you were in fact called as one body to this peace), and be thankful.
that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,
Now may the God of peace himself make you completely holy and may your spirit and soul and body be kept entirely blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So when he came into the world, he said, "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.
By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and eat well," but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.
So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.
And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence -- and is set on fire by hell.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
But even when Michael the archangel was arguing with the devil and debating with him concerning Moses' body, he did not dare to bring a slanderous judgment, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"
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