| Ephesians
The Church - The Body
of Christ -- Eph. 1:22-23
Eph. 1:22-23 And
He put all [things] under His feet, and gave Him [to be]
head over all [things] to the church, 23 which is His
body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
One Body - Jews and
Gentiles -- Eph. 2:14-16
Eph. 2:14-16 For
He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has
broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having
abolished in His flesh the enmity, [that is,] the law of
commandments [contained] in ordinances, so as to create
in Himself one new man [from] the two, [thus] making
peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God
in one body through the cross, thereby putting to
death the enmity.
One Gentiles -
Fellow heirs of the same body -- Eph. 3:1-7
Eph. 3:1-7 For this reason I,
Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles-- 2
if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the
grace of God which was given to me for you, 3 how that
by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have
briefly written already, 4 by which, when you read, you
may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ), 5
which in other ages was not made known to the sons of
men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His
holy apostles and prophets: 6 that the Gentiles should
be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers
of His promise in Christ through the gospel, 7 of which
I became a minister according to the gift of the grace
of God given to me by the effective working of His
power.
One Body - Unity of
the Church which is His body -- Eph. 4:4-6
Eph. 4:4-6 [There
is] one body and one Spirit, just as you
were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one
faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who
[is] above all, and through all, and in you all.
The Church - The
Body of Christ -- Eph. 4:11-13
Eph. 4:11-13 And
He Himself gave some [to be] apostles, some prophets,
some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for
the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry,
for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till
we all come to the unity of the faith and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
The Church - The
Body of Christ -- Eph. 4:14-16
Eph. 4:14-16 that
we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and
carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the
trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful
plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow
up in all things into Him who is the head -- Christ --
16 from whom the whole body, joined and
knit together by what every joint supplies, according to
the effective working by which every part does its
share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of
itself in love.
The Church - The
Body of Christ -- Eph. 5:23
Eph. 5:23 For the
husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of
the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
The Church - The
Body of Christ -- Eph. 5:28-30
Eph. 5:28-30 So
husbands ought to love their own wives as their own
bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no
one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and
cherishes it, just as the Lord [does] the church. 30 For
we are members of His body, of His flesh
and of His bones. |