and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.

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

from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.

But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.

I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;

For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken.”

For even though I am absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good discipline and the stability of your faith in Christ.

But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”

But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

Then these men said, “We will not find any ground of accusation against this Daniel unless we find it against him with regard to the law of his God.”

and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.

So the Lord said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s household with you shall bear the guilt in connection with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the guilt in connection with your priesthood.

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Now He is not the God of the dead but of the living; for all live to Him.”

Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?

Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with difficult questions.

“If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then turns against her,

Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.

Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.

He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.

The bird also has found a house,
And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,
Even Your altars, O Lord of hosts,
My King and my God.

but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus.

And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

For by me your days will be multiplied,
And years of life will be added to you.

As in water face reflects face,
So the heart of man reflects man.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.