Bible Verses about “the body of christ”
The Bible contains 42 verses about the body of christ across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
“For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:”
“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”
“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”
“That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.”
“For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.”
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”
“So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.”
“For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:”
“From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.”
“And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”
“And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.”
“¶ For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ.”
“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.”
“And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.”
“But now [are they] many members, yet but one body.”
“For the body is not one member, but many.”
“¶ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.”
“Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:”
“And those [members] of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness.”
“And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.”
“But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.”
“For our comely [parts] have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that [part] which lacked:”
“And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.”
“That there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another.”
“If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?”
“And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?”
“If the whole body [were] an eye, where [were] the hearing? If the whole [were] hearing, where [were] the smelling?”
“And if they were all one member, where [were] the body?”
“Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?”
“[Are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [are] all workers of miracles?”
“But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.”
“And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he might have the preeminence.”
“Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:”
“Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”
“And hath put all [things] under his feet, and gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the church,”
“Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set [him] at his own right hand in the heavenly [places],”
“That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:”