Romans 12:4
12:4 For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,
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 1:17
1:17 He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him.
Colossians 1:12-14
1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share
in the saints’
inheritance in the light.
1:13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,
1:14 in whom we have redemption,
the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:20
1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross – through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
Colossians 1:27-28
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.
1:28 We proclaim him by instructing
and teaching
all people
with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature
in Christ.
Ephesians 1:23
1:23 Now the church is
his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 4:25
4:25 Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
Ephesians 5:23
5:23 because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.
Ephesians 5:30
5:30 for we are members of his body.
Colossians 1:24
1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
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.