'Body' in the Bible

But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the Holy Spirit.

And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light.

But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?

Saying, Lord, my servant is ill in bed at the house, with no power in his body, and in great pain.

And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.

And his disciples came, and took up his body and put it in the earth; and they went and gave Jesus news of what had taken place.

And there came to him great numbers of people having with them those who were broken in body, or blind, or without voice, or wounded, or ill in any way, and a number of others; they put them down at his feet and he made them well:

And the blind and the broken in body came to him in the Temple, and he made them well.

Wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles come together.

For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.

And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.

This man went in to Pilate, and made a request for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate gave orders for it to be given to him.

And Joseph took the body, folding it in clean linen,

Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.

So they went, and made safe the place where his body was, putting a stamp on the stone, and the watchmen were with them.

Now late on the Sabbath, when the dawn of the first day of the week was near, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the place where his body was.

And straight away the fountain of her blood was stopped, and she had a feeling in her body that her disease had gone and she was well.

And when his disciples had news of it, they came and took up his body, and put it in its last resting-place.

And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.

She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.

And while they were taking food, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said, Take it: this is my body.

And a certain young man went after him, with only a linen cloth about his body; and they put their hands on him;

There came Joseph of Arimathaea, a responsible man in high honour, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God; and he went in to Pilate without fear, and made a request for the body of Jesus.

And when he had news of it from the captain, he let Joseph have the body.

And very early after dawn on the first day of the week, they came at the time of the coming up of the sun to the place where the body had been put.

And she said with a loud voice: May blessing be on you among women, and a blessing on the child of your body.

For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.

And it came about that when he said these things, a certain woman among the people said in a loud voice, Happy is the body which gave you birth, and the breasts from which you took milk.

The light of the body is the eye: when your eye is true, all your body is full of light; but when it is evil, your body is dark.

If, then, all your body is light, with no part of it dark, it will be completely full of light, as when a flame with its bright shining gives you light.

And I say to you, my friends, Have no fear of those who may put the body to death, and are able to do no more than that.

And he said to his disciples, For this reason I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about what food you will take, or for your body, how it may be clothed.

Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?

But when you give a feast, send for the poor and the blind and those who are broken in body:

And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body.

And they, answering him, said, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there will the eagles come together.

And he took bread and, having given praise, he gave it to them when it had been broken, saying, This is my body, which is given for you: do this in memory of me.

This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.

And he took it down, and folding it in a linen cloth, he put it in a place cut in the rock for a dead body; and no one had ever been put in it.

And the women who had come with him from Galilee went after him and saw the place and how his body had been put to rest;

But on the first day of the week, at dawn, they came to the place where his body had been put, taking the spices which they had got ready.

And they went in, but the body of the Lord Jesus was not there.

But Peter got up and went to the place where the body had been put, and looking in he saw nothing but the linen cloths, and he went to his house full of wonder at what had taken place.

And certain women among us gave us cause for wonder, for they went early to the place where his body had been put,

But his words were about that holy building which was his body.

Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?

He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.

Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.

And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.

These things came about so that the Writings might be true, No bone of his body will be broken.

After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, made a request to Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate said he might do so. So he went and took away his body.

Then they took the body of Jesus, folding linen about it with the spices, as is the way of the Jews when they put the dead to rest.

She saw two angels in white seated where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head and the other at the feet.

But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king,

He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.

And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth.

But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord? See, the feet of the young men who have put the body of your husband in the earth, are at the door, and they will take you out.

And God-fearing men put Stephen's body in its last resting-place, making great weeping over him.

For unclean spirits came out from those who had them, crying with a loud voice; and a number of those who were ill and broken in body were made well.

But Peter made them all go outside, and went down on his knees in prayer; and turning to the body, he said, Tabitha, get up. And, opening her eyes, she saw Peter and got up.

Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:

But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

So that bits of linen and clothing from his body were taken to people who were ill, and their diseases went away from them and the evil spirits went out.

But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.

And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,

So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

For I myself, being present in spirit though not in body, have come to a decision about him who has done this thing;

Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.

But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

The cup of blessing which we take, does it not give us a part in the blood of Christ? and is not the broken bread a taking part in the body of Christ?

Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.

And when it had been broken with an act of praise, he said, This is my body which is for you: do this in memory of me.

If, then, anyone takes the bread or the cup of the Lord in the wrong spirit, he will be responsible for the body and blood of the Lord.

For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.

For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit.

For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.

If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body.

And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same.

If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?

But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.