Verse 23

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

Referenced Verses

  • Eph 4:12 : 12 For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:
  • Col 1:24 : 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;
  • Col 1:18-19 : 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. 19 For God in full measure was pleased to be in him;
  • 1 Cor 12:12-27 : 12 For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ. 13 For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit. 14 For the body is not one part, but a number of parts. 15 If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same. 17 If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him. 19 And if they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 But now they are all different parts, but one body. 21 And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22 No, those parts which seem to be feeble are the more necessary; 23 And to those parts of the body which seem to have less honour we give all the more honour; and to those parts of the body which are a cause of shame to us we give the greater respect; 24 But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it; 25 So that there might be no division in the body; but all the parts might have the same care for one another. 26 And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.
  • John 1:16 : 16 From his full measure we have all been given grace on grace.
  • Eph 5:23-32 : 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. 24 And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things. 25 Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it; 26 So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word, 27 And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete. 28 Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself: 29 For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church; 30 Because we are parts of his body. 31 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. 32 This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.
  • Eph 3:19 : 19 And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.
  • Eph 4:10 : 10 He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.)
  • Col 2:9-9 : 9 For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form, 10 And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:
  • Col 3:11 : 11 Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.
  • Col 3:15 : 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.
  • Eph 4:4 : 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;
  • 1 Cor 12:6 : 6 And there are different operations, but the same God, who is working all things in all.
  • 1 Cor 15:28 : 28 And when all things have been put under him, then will the Son himself be under him who put all things under him, so that God may be all in all.
  • Eph 2:16 : 16 And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division.