'Body' in the Bible

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

"The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it; and they went and told Jesus.

Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."

This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.

Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body."

A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. The young men grabbed him,

Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.

When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light."

"I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

They, answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together."

He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me."

this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.

The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.

They entered in, and didn't find the Lord Jesus' body.

and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.

So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.

Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

Peter put them all out, and kneeled down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up!" She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out.

Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,

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

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world -- how she may please her husband.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it a sharing of the body of Christ?

Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me."

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

For the body is not one member, but many.

If the foot would say, "Because I'm not the hand, I'm not part of the body," it is not therefore not part of the body.

If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body.

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

If they were all one member, where would the body be?

But now they are many members, but one body.

No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.

Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety;

whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,

that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

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

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?"

That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows),

From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

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

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

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,

in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;