13 Bible Verses about Body Of Christ

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for His body, that is, the church.

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock that the Holy Spirit has appointed you to as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her

The Lord their God will save them on that day
as the flock of His people;
for they are like jewels in a crown,
sparkling over His land.

He found him in a desolate land,
in a barren, howling wilderness;
He surrounded him, cared for him,
and protected him as the pupil of His eye.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for His body, that is, the church.

He doesn’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, develops with growth from God.

for the training of the saints in the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ,

in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

Now you are the body of Christ, and individual members of it.

However, each one must live his life in the situation the Lord assigned when God called him. This is what I command in all the churches.

If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you gather together you will not come under judgment. And I will give instructions about the other matters whenever I come.

Then the apostles and the elders assembled to consider this matter.

For it was the Holy Spirit’s decision—and ours—to put no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

(If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God’s church?)

According to God’s grace that was given to me, I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder, and another builds on it. But each one must be careful how he builds on it.

The whole building, being put together by Him, grows into a holy sanctuary in the Lord.

And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the forces of Hades will not overpower it.

you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for His body, that is, the church.

And He put everything under His feet and appointed Him as head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of the One who fills all things in every way.

in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

And He put everything under His feet and appointed Him as head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of the One who fills all things in every way.