13 Bible Verses about Body Of Christ

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up instead that which is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh on behalf of his body, which is the church;

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the church of the Lord, which he purchased with his own blood.

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

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up instead that which is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh on behalf of his body, which is the church;

and not holding fast the Head, from which the whole body, supported and compacted by means of the joints and ligaments, groweth with an increase wrought by God.

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

so we, though many, form one body in Christ, and each of us is a member of it in common with the rest.

Now ye are the body of Christ, and members individually. And

But let every one continue to walk in the lot which the Lord appointed him, in the condition in which God called him. And this direction I give in all the churches.

If any one hunger, let him eat at home; that ye may not come together to condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

And the apostles and the elders came together to consider this matter.

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to lay upon you no further burden except these necessary things:

for if a man knoweth not how to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God

According to the grace of God bestowed on me, I, as a skilful masterbuilder, have laid the foundation; and another buildeth thereon; but let every one take heed, how he buildeth thereon.

in whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord;

And I on my part say to thee, that thou art Peter, a rock, and on this rock will I build my church, and the gates of the underworld shall not prevail against it.

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

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up instead that which is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh on behalf of his body, which is the church;

and put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who filleth all with all;

so we, though many, form one body in Christ, and each of us is a member of it in common with the rest.

and put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who filleth all with all;