Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts.

All of you are Christ's body, and each one is a part of it.

In the same way, though we are many, we are one body in union with Christ, and we are all joined to each other as different parts of one body.

It is through faith that all of you are God's children in union with Christ Jesus.

So there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, between slaves and free people, between men and women; you are all one in union with Christ Jesus.

God put all things under Christ's feet and gave him to the church as supreme Lord over all things.

The church is Christ's body, the completion of him who himself completes all things everywhere.

He abolished the Jewish Law with its commandments and rules, in order to create out of the two races one new people in union with himself, in this way making peace.

By his death on the cross Christ destroyed their enmity; by means of the cross he united both races into one body and brought them back to God.

The secret is that by means of the gospel the Gentiles have a part with the Jews in God's blessings; they are members of the same body and share in the promise that God made through Christ Jesus.

He did this to prepare all God's people for the work of Christian service, in order to build up the body of Christ.

And so we shall all come together to that oneness in our faith and in our knowledge of the Son of God; we shall become mature people, reaching to the very height of Christ's full stature.

No more lying, then! Each of you must tell the truth to the other believer, because we are all members together in the body of Christ.

and have stopped holding on to Christ, who is the head of the body. Under Christ's control the whole body is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God wants it to grow.

As a result, there is no longer any distinction between Gentiles and Jews, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarians, savages, slaves, and free, but Christ is all, Christ is in all.

The peace that Christ gives is to guide you in the decisions you make; for it is to this peace that God has called you together in the one body. And be thankful.

All ate the same spiritual bread

and drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them; and that rock was Christ himself.

You cannot drink from the Lord's cup and also from the cup of demons; you cannot eat at the Lord's table and also at the table of demons.

This means that every time you eat this bread and drink from this cup you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

So then, you should each examine yourself first, and then eat the bread and drink from the cup.