for we are members of his body.

It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

If the foot says, “Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

And if the ear says, “Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,

By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

When she poured this oil on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

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.

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin a person commits is outside of the body” – but the immoral person sins against his own body.

For this reason, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,

because some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak and his speech is of no account.”

And I know that this man (whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)

In him you also were circumcised – not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.