Ephesians 4:15-16
4:15 But practicing the truth in love,
we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.
4:16 From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together
through every supporting ligament.
As each one does its part, the body grows in love.
Ephesians 5:30
5:30 for we are members of his body.
Romans 12:4-5
12:4 For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,
12:5 so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.
Romans 12:1
Consecration of the Believer’s Life
12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God – which is your reasonable service.
Colossians 1:12
1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share
in the saints’
inheritance in the light.
Colossians 1:27
1:27 God wanted to make known to them the glorious
riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Colossians 2:19
2:19 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.