1 Metaphorical Body The Ekklesia
1.1 Body Of Christ
1Co 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid., .
1Co 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. .
Eph 1:23 Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. .
Eph 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: .
Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. .
Eph 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. .
Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. .
Col 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: .
Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. .
1.2 Members Of One Body
1.2.1 Weak Or Unseemly Members
1Co 12:23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. .
1Co 12:24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked: .
1Co 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. .
1Co 12:14 For the, body is not one member, but many. .
1Co 12:15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore, not of the body? .
1Co 12:16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore, not of the body? .
1Co 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? .
1Co 12:18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him..
1Co 12:19 And if they were all one member, where were the body? .
1Co 12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: .
1.3 One Body All Belonging To
Ro 12:4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: .
Ro 12:5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. .
1Co 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. .
1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. .
1Co 12:20 But now are they many members, yet but one body. .
Eph 2:16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:, .
Eph 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; .
Col 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. .
1.4 Self Edification
1Co 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care, one for another., .
Eph 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: .
Eph 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every, part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. .
Col 2:19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. .