Verse 19
and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.
Referenced Verses
- Eph 4:15-16 : 15 and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ; 16 from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.
- Job 19:9-9 : 9 Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head. 10 He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope. 11 And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries. 12 Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.
- Ps 139:15-16 : 15 My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth. 16 Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed -- And not one among them.
- John 15:4-6 : 4 remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me. 5 `I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything; 6 if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;
- John 17:21 : 21 that they all may be one, as Thou Father `art' in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.
- Acts 4:32 : 32 and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common.
- Rom 11:17 : 17 And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become --
- Rom 12:4-5 : 4 for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office, 5 so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.
- 1 Cor 1:10 : 10 And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,
- 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;
- 1 Cor 10:16-17 : 16 The cup of the blessing that we bless -- is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? the bread that we break -- is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ? 17 because one bread, one body, are we the many -- for we all of the one bread do partake.
- 1 Cor 12:12-27 : 12 For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also `is' the Christ, 13 for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink, 14 for also the body is not one member, but many; 15 if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body; 16 and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body? 17 If the whole body `were' an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling? 18 and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed, 19 and if all were one member, where the body? 20 and now, indeed, `are' many members, and one body; 21 and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.' 22 But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary, 23 and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant, 24 and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another, 26 and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with `it' do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with `it' do all the members; 27 and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
- Gal 1:6-9 : 6 I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news; 7 that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ; 8 but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be! 9 as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive -- anathema let him be!
- Gal 5:2-4 : 2 lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing; 3 and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law; 4 ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;
- Eph 1:22 : 22 and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,
- Eph 4:3 : 3 being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;
- Eph 5:29 : 29 for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,
- Phil 1:27 : 27 Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,
- Phil 2:2-5 : 2 fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing -- having the same love -- of one soul -- minding the one thing, 3 nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves -- 4 each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others. 5 For, let this mind be in you that `is' also in Christ Jesus,
- Col 1:10 : 10 to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
- Col 1:18 : 18 And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all `things' -- himself -- first,
- Col 2:2 : 2 that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,
- Col 2:6-9 : 6 as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye, 7 being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving. 8 See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ, 9 because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,
- 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
- 1 Thess 4:10 : 10 for ye do it also to all the brethren who `are' in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,
- 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;
- 1 Tim 2:4-6 : 4 who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth; 5 for one `is' God, one also `is' mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --
- 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,
- 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him `is' the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.