¹² For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.

¹⁷ Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.

¹⁵ And let the peace of Christ be ruling in your hearts, as it was the purpose of God for you to be one body; and give praise to God at all times.

¹⁹ And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

¹² For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.

³⁰ Because we are parts of his body.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;

²⁴ Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;

¹⁵ But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

¹⁶ Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

⁴ For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,

⁵ So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

²³ Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.

¹⁶ Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.