THE CHURCH WHICH IS HIS BODY
MAT 16:18 “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it.
MAT 18:17 “And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-gatherer.
ACT 11:26 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came about that for an entire year they met with the church, and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
ACT 13:1 Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was {there}, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
ACT 14:23 And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
ACT 14:27 And when they had arrived and gathered the church together, they { began} to report all things that God had done with them and how He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
ACT 15:3 Therefore, being sent on their way by the church, they were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and were bringing great joy to all the brethren.
ACT 15:4 And when they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all that God had done with them.
ACT 15:22 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas-- Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren,
ACT 20:17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church.
ACT 20:28 “Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
ROM 16:5 also {greet} the church that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first convert to Christ from Asia.
ACT 20:17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church.
ACT 20:28 “Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
1CO 5:12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within {the church}?
1CO 6:4 If then you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?
1CO 11:18 For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and in part, I believe it.
1CO 11:22 What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise you.
1CO 12:28 And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, {various} kinds of tongues.
1CO 14:4 One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church.
1CO 14:5 Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but {even} more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.
1CO 14:12 So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual {gifts,} seek to abound for the edification of the church.
1CO 14:19 however, in the church I desire to speak five words with my mind, that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.
1CO 14:23 If therefore the whole church should assemble together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?
1CO 14:28 but if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself and to God.
1CO 14:35 And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church.
1CO 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
1CO 16:19 The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca greet you heartily in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
GAL 1:13 For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure, and tried to destroy it;
EPH 1:22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church,
EPH 3:10 in order that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly {places.}
EPH 3:21 to Him {be} the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
EPH 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself {being} the Savior of the body.
EPH 5:24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives {ought to be} to their husbands in everything.
EPH 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her;
EPH 5:27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she should be holy and blameless.
EPH 5:29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also {does} the church,
EPH 5:32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
PHI 4:15 And you yourselves also know, Philippians, that at the first preaching of the gospel, after I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you alone;
COL 1:18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; so that He Himself might come to have first place in everything.
COL 1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body (which is the church) in filling up that which is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.
COL 1:25 Of {this church} I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, that I might fully carry out the {preaching of} the word of God,
COL 4:15 Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea and also Nympha and the church that is in her house.
COL 4:16 And when this letter is read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and you, for your part read my letter {that is coming} from Laodicea.
1TI 3:5 (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?);
1TI 3:7 And he must have a good reputation with those outside {the church,} so that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1TI 3:15 but in case I am delayed, {I write} so that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.
HEB 12:23 to the general assembly and church of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,
JAM 5:14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
3JO 1:6 and they bear witness to your love before the church; and you will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
3JO 1:9 I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept what we say.
3JO 1:10 For this reason, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words; and not satisfied with this, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and he forbids those who desire {to do so,} and puts {them} out of the church.
REV 2:1 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands, says this: REV 2:8 “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life, says this:
REV 2:12 “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: The One who has the sharp two-edged sword says this:
REV 2:18 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: The Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet are like burnished bronze, says this:
REV 3:1 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars, says this: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.
REV 3:7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:
REV 3:14 “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this:
THE BODY
ROM 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit for God.
ROM 12:4 For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function,
ROM 12:5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
1CO 6:16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a harlot is one body {with her}? For He says, “\The two will become one flesh.\
“1CO 10:16 Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?
1CO 10:17 Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.
1CO 11:24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.
“ 1CO 11:27 Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
1CO 11:29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he does not judge the body rightly.
1CO 12:12 For even as the body is one and {yet} has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.
1CO 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
1CO 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
1CO 12:15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not {a part} of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less {a part} of the body.
1CO 12:16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not {a part} of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less {a part} of the body.
1CO 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
1CO 12:18 But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.
1CO 12:19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
1CO 12:20 But now there are many members, but one body.
1CO 12:22 On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;
1CO 12:23 and those {members} of the body, which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our unseemly {members come to} have more abundant seemliness,
1CO 12:24 whereas our seemly {members} have no need {of it.} But God has {so} composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that {member} which lacked,
1CO 12:25 that there should be no division in the body, but {that} the members should have the same care for one another.
1CO 12:27 Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.
GAL 6:17 From now on let no one cause trouble for me, for I bear on my body the brand-marks of Jesus.
EPH 1:23 which is His body, the fulness of Him who fills all in all.
EPH 2:16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity.
EPH 3:6 {to be specific}, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,
EPH 4:4 {There is} one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
EPH 4:12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;
EPH 4:16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
EPH 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself {being} the Savior of the body.
EPH 5:30 because we are members of His body.
PHI 3:21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.
COL 1:18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; so that He Himself might come to have first place in everything.
COL 1:22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach--
COL 1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body (which is the church) in filling up that which is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.
COL 2:19 and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.
COL 3:15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.
HEB 13:3 Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves also are in the body.
JAM 2:26 For just as the body without {the} spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.