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Ephesians 4:12
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,
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Colossians 1:18-19
He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son
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Ephesians 3:19
and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
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John 1:16
For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.
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Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body– for the sake of his body, the church– what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
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Colossians 2:9-10
For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
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Ephesians 4:10
He, the very one who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.
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1 Corinthians 12 12-1 Corinthians 12 27
For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body– though many– are one body, so too is Christ.For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.If the foot says,“ Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.And if the ear says,“ Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.If they were all the same member, where would the body be?So now there are many members, but one body.The eye cannot say to the hand,“ I do not need you,” nor in turn can the head say to the foot,“ I do not need you.”On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have mutual concern for one another.If one member suffers, everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored, all rejoice with it.Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.
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Ephesians 5:23-32
because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church– he himself being the savior of the body.But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for herto sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,so that he may present the church to himself as glorious– not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,for we are members of his body.For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.This mystery is great– but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
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Colossians 3:15
Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart( for you were in fact called as one body to this peace), and be thankful.
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1 Corinthians 15 28
And when all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.
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1 Corinthians 12 6
And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.
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Ephesians 2:16
and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.
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Romans 13:5
Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath of the authorities but also because of your conscience.
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Ephesians 4:4
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,
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Colossians 3:11
Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and in all.