¹² For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also `is' the Christ,

²⁷ and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

¹⁷ because one bread, one body, are we the many -- for we all of the one bread do partake.

¹⁵ and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

¹⁹ and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.

¹² unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

¹⁸ And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all `things' -- himself -- first,

³⁰ because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

²³ because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

⁴ one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

²⁴ I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

¹⁵ and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

¹⁶ from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

⁴ for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,

⁵ so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

²³ which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

¹⁶ and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;