1 Corinthians 10:17

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Summary

1 Corinthians 10:17

For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

We being

That

1 Corinthians 10:3

1 Corinthians 11:26

General references

John 6:48

Romans 12:5

Bible References

We being

For as the body is one, tho' it has many members, and all the members of that one body, tho' many, are one body: so also is the body of Christ.

so we who are many, make all but one body in Christ, and every member subservient to one another.

for you are all the sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

for he has subjected all things to him, and constituted him supreme head of the church,

(which kept us at variance) by abolishing the dogmatical injunctions of the law, that having made the peace, he might incorporate the two into one new body under himself;

"that the Gentiles should be heirs as well as the Jews, make one body together, and partake of the divine promise in Christ by the gospel."

thus fitly qualifying his servants for their respective offices, in order to build up the body of Christ:

not adhering to the head, from which all the parts of the body derive its nutrition, and being firmly united together by its joints and ligaments, receives a divine increase.

by which there is now neither Greek, or Jew; circumcised, or uncircumcised; Barbarian, or Scythian; slave, or freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

That

they all eat the same spiritual meat,

As often then as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye make a declaration of the Lord's death till he come.

General references

I am the bread of life,

so we who are many, make all but one body in Christ, and every member subservient to one another.