13 Bible Verses about Body Of Christ

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which he purchased with his own blood.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

The LORD their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over his land.

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the churches.

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

(but if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?)

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this Rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.