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Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function, / so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another. Ephesians 4:12-16 to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ, / until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the ...
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1 Corinthians 12:27. Now ye — Believers at Corinth; are the...
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For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it. Colossians 1:18 And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
They are both the body of Christ together as a group, and they are individual members of the body of Christ. In prior verses, Paul has noted that the diverse members of the body must work together, according to their designed roles, in order for the body to function. This is not only good for the body, it's good for each individual member.
1 Corinthians 12:27. Now ye are the body of Christ Not his natural body, which his Father prepared for him, in which he bore our sins on the tree, and which was offered up once for all; nor his sacramental body, or the bread in the supper, which is a representation of his body; but his body mystical, the church; not that the Corinthians were the whole of the body, only a part of it, as every ...
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because we are members of his body. Colossians 1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, Romans 12:5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
