Verse 5

so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 10:17 : 17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.
  • 1 Cor 12:20 : 20 So now there are many members, but one body.
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.
  • 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.
  • Rom 12:4 : 4 For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,
  • 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 1:24 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 12:27-28 : 27 Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it. 28 And God has placed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, gifts of healing, helps, gifts of leadership, different kinds of tongues.
  • Eph 1:23 : 23 Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
  • 1 Cor 12:12-14 : 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. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.