Bible Verses about โbody of christโ
The Bible contains 23 verses about body of christ across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โLove is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,โ
โdoesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;โ
โbears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.โ
โdoesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;โ
โLove never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.โ
โWhen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.โ
โBut now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.โ
โFor now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.โ
โIf I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.โ
โbut when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.โ
โIf I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.โ
โFor we know in part, and we prophesy in part;โ
โIf I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.โ
โfor the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;โ
โso we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.โ
โFor even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,โ
โfrom whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.โ
โNow I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.โ
โFor as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.โ
โFor in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.โ
โNow you are the body of Christ, and members individually.โ
โHe is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.โ
โwhich is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.โ
