'Body' in the Bible
I for my part, present with you in spirit although absent in body, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has so acted.
I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his body, that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord Jesus.
Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;
Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."
Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business--that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world--how she shall please her husband.
but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.
The cup of blessing, which we bless, does it not mean a joint-participation in the blood of Christ? The loaf of bread which we break, does it not mean a joint-participation in the body of Christ?
Since there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; we, all of us, share in that one loaf.
and after giving thanks He broke it and said, "This is my body which is about to be broken for you. Do this in memory of me."
Whoever, therefore, in an unworthy manner, eats the bread or drinks from the cup of the Lord sins against the body and blood of the Lord.
For any one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgement to himself, if he fails to estimate the body aright.
For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with the Church of Christ.
For, in fact, in one Spirit all of us--whether we are Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free men--were baptized to form but one body; and we were all nourished by that one Spirit.
For the human body does not consist of one part, but of many.
Were the foot to say, "Because I am not a hand I am not a part of the body," that would not make it any the less a part of the body.
Or were the ear to say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," that would not make it any the less a part of the body.
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the nostrils be?
But, as a matter of fact, God has arranged the parts in the body--every one of them--as He has seen fit.
If they were all one part, where would the body be?
But, as a matter of fact, there are many parts and but one body.
No, it is quite otherwise. Even those parts of the body which are apparently somewhat feeble are yet indispensable;
But it was God who built up the body, and bestowed more abundant honor on the part that felt the need,
that there might be no disunion in the body, but that all the members might entertain the same anxious care for one another's welfare.
As for you, you are the body of Christ, and individually you are members of it.
And if I distribute all my possessions to the poor, and give up my body to be burned, but am destitute of Love, it profits me nothing.
But some one will say, "How can the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come back?"
It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay;
an animal body is sown, a spiritual body is raised. As surely as there is an animal body, so there is also a spiritual body.