24 And now, even though I suffer for you, I am happy. There are still some things for Christ to suffer in his body, which is the church. So I am glad to take my share of his suffering in my body.
15 Hold on to the peace of God which is in your hearts. You were called to have peace because you are all like one body. Be thankful.
18 He is also the head of the body which is the church the people who believe in Jesus Christ . He is the beginning, the first one to rise from death, so that he would be the first one in everything.
12 A person has only one body, and the body has many parts. It is the same with Christ.
27 Are all the people apostles? Can they all speak words from God? Can they all teach? Can they all do big works?
16 The whole body is joined and held together by every joint that it has. It is from Christ that the whole body grows as each different part does its work. It grows so that it becomes stronger in love.
4 There is one body of Christ and one Spirit. When God called you, there was one hope before you in your calling.
15 Do you not know that your bodies belong to Christ? Shall I take parts of Christ and join them to a bad woman? No, never!
29 No one ever hated his own body. But he feeds it and takes care of it.
30 In the same way Christ takes care of the church because we are parts of his body.
4 In a body there are many parts, but all the parts do not do the same thing.
5 In the same way, we are many people. But we are one body because we are all joined together in Christ. Each one of us is a part of all the others.