Bible Cross References
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Ephesians 1:23
The church is Christ's body, the completion of him who himself completes all things everywhere.
Genesis 2:23
Then the man said, "At last, here is one of my own kind--- Bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh. 'Woman' is her name because she was taken out of man."
Romans 12:5
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.
1 Corinthians 6:15
You know that your bodies are parts of the body of Christ. Shall I take a part of Christ's body and make it part of the body of a prostitute? Impossible!
1 Corinthians 12:12-27
12
Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts.
13
In the same way, all of us, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether slaves or free, have been baptized into the one body by the same Spirit, and we have all been given the one Spirit to drink.
14
For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.
15
If the foot were to say, "Because I am not a hand, I don't belong to the body," that would not keep it from being a part of the body.
16
And if the ear were to say, "Because I am not an eye, I don't belong to the body," that would not keep it from being a part of the body.
17
If the whole body were just an eye, how could it hear? And if it were only an ear, how could it smell?
18
As it is, however, God put every different part in the body just as he wanted it to be.
19
There would not be a body if it were all only one part!
20
As it is, there are many parts but one body.
21
So then, the eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" Nor can the head say to the feet, "Well, I don't need you!"
22
On the contrary, we cannot do without the parts of the body that seem to be weaker;
23
and those parts that we think aren't worth very much are the ones which we treat with greater care; while the parts of the body which don't look very nice are treated with special modesty,
24
which the more beautiful parts do not need. God himself has put the body together in such a way as to give greater honor to those parts that need it.
25
And so there is no division in the body, but all its different parts have the same concern for one another.
26
If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it; if one part is praised, all the other parts share its happiness.
27
All of you are Christ's body, and each one is a part of it.
Colossians 2:19
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.