Verse 12

Different Members in One Body For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body– though many– are one body, so too is Christ.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 12:27 : 27 Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.
  • 1 Cor 10:17 : 17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.
  • Eph 4:12 : 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,
  • Col 2:19 : 19 He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
  • Col 3:15 : 15 Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart(for you were in fact called as one body to this peace), and be thankful.
  • Eph 4:4 : 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,
  • Eph 5:23 : 23 because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church(he himself being the savior of the body).
  • Eph 5:30 : 30 because we are members of his body.
  • Col 1:18 : 18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.
  • Col 1:24 : 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body– for the sake of his body, the church– what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
  • Rom 12:4-5 : 4 For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function, 5 so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.
  • Eph 4:15-16 : 15 But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head. 16 From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body builds itself up in love.
  • Gal 3:16 : 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say,“and to the descendants,” referring to many, but“and to your descendant,” referring to one, who is Christ.
  • Eph 1:23 : 23 Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.