58 Bible Verses about The Body
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For just as the human body is one whole, and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many though they are, form but one body, so it is with the Christ;
So we, by our union in Christ, many though we are, form but one body, and individually we are related one to another as its parts.
For, just as in the human body there is a union of many parts, and each part has its own function,
If all the body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If it were all hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
Or if the ear says 'Since I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,' it does not on that account cease to belong to the body.
Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you-the Spirit which you have from God?
We always bear on our bodies the marks of the death that Jesus died, so that the Life also of Jesus may be exhibited in our bodies.
And in this confidence we would gladly leave our home in the body, and make our home with the Lord.
There is but one Body and one Spirit, just as there was but one hope set before you when you received your Call.
If the foot says 'Since I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' it does not on that account cease to belong to the body.
That which comes first is not the spiritual, but the human; afterwards comes the spiritual;
And those parts which we deem less honorable we surround with special honor; and our ungraceful parts receive a special grace which our graceful parts do not require.
As surely as there is a human body, there is also a spiritual body.
The eye cannot say to the hand 'I do not need you,' nor, again, the head to the feet 'I do not need you.'
To fit his People for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the Body of the Christ.
Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this Death?
As to secure that there should be no disunion in the body, but that the parts should show the same care for one another.
It is true that I am not with you in person, but I am with you in spirit, and am glad to see the good order and the unbroken front resulting from your faith in Christ.
No! Those parts of the body that seem naturally the weaker are indispensable;
But, if Christ is within you, then, though the body is dead as a consequence of sin, the spirit is Life as a consequence of righteousness.
And he is the Head of the Church, which is his Body. The First-born from the dead, he is to the Church the Source of its Life, that he, in all things, may stand first.
The Bread is one, and we, though many, are one body; for we all partake of that one Bread.
If one part suffers, all the others suffer with it, and if one part has honor done it, all the others share its joy.
The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is unclouded, your whole body will be lit up;
Moreover, you are not your own masters; you were bought, and the price was paid. Therefore, honor God in your bodies.
To each man there is given spiritual illumination for the general good.
But in fact God has placed each individual part just where he thought fit in the body.
And do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul; rather be afraid of him who is able to destroy both soul and body in the Pit.
For at the Bar of the Christ we must all appear in our true characters, that each may reap the results of the life which he has lived in the body, in accordance with his actions--whether good or worthless.
For it was by one Spirit that we were all baptized to form one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free men, and were all imbued with one Spirit.
He fails to maintain union with the Head, to whom it is due that the whole body, nourished and knit together by the contact and Keynesian of every part, grows with a divine growth.
I know a man in union with Christ, who, fourteen years ago-- whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows-- was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking) to the third Heaven.
There are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but the beauty of the heavenly bodies is not the beauty of the earthly.
And I know that this man--whether in the body or separated from the body I do not know; God knows--
These things are only the shadow of what is to come; the substance is in the Christ.
Each of you recognizing the duty of taking one woman for his wife, purely and honorably,
Or do not you know that a man who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body (for 'the two,' it is said, 'will become one');
For the Church is Christ's Body, and is filled by him who fills all things everywhere with his presence.
Who, by the exercise of his power to bring everything into subjection to himself, will make this body that we have in our humiliation like to that body which he has in his Glory.
If you live in obedience to your earthly nature, you will inevitably die; but if, by the power of the Spirit, you put an end to the evil habits of the body, you will live.
And it is in the fulfillment of the will of God that we have been purified by the sacrifice, once and for all, of the body of Jesus Christ.
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Redemption » Subjects of » The body
And not Nature only; but we ourselves also, though we have already a first gift of the Spirit-we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we eagerly await our full adoption as Sons-the redemption of our bodies.
Topics on The Body
Altering The Body
1 Timothy 2:9-10I also desire that women should adorn themselves with appropriate dress, worn quietly and modestly, and not with wreaths or gold ornaments for the hair, or pearls, or costly clothing,
Cleansing The Body
Acts 22:16And now why wait any longer: Be baptized at once, wash away your sins, and invoke his Name.
Covering The Body
Acts 12:8The chains dropped from his wrists, and then the angel said: "Put on your girdle and sandals." When Peter had done so, the angel added: "Throw your cloak round you and follow me."
Damage To The Body
Matthew 6:23But, if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkened. And, if the inner light is darkness, how intense must that darkness be!
Limitations Of The Body
Romans 4:19Though he was nearly a hundred years old, yet his faith did not fail him, even when he thought of his own body, then utterly worn out, and remembered that Sarah was past bearing children.
Provision For The Body
Ephesians 5:29For no one ever yet hated his own body. But every one feeds his body and cares for it, just as the Christ for the Church;
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