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2 Corinthians 5:1-10. New Living Translation. New Bodies. 5 For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. 2 We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our ...
- 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 ESV / 252 helpful votes. For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
- Romans 12:4-5 ESV / 188 helpful votes. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
- Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 135 helpful votes. From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
- 1 Corinthians 12:27-31 ESV / 117 helpful votes. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
Here and in 1 Corinthians 12, the head is not thus distinguished from the rest of the body (see 1 Corinthians 12:21); the whole is "one body in Christ," who is the living Person who unites and animates it.
- False Pictures of The Church
- God’s Picture: The Body of Christ
- Five Lessons from This Analogy
Before we go to God’s pictures of the church, I want to point out some of the false pictures that some have of the church today. As we get rid of the distortions, we’ll be ready to receive the truth. Tom Nelson, who serves as a pastor in the Free Church, has identified four distorted images. The church as a gas station—where you fill up your spirit...
The Bible uses this wonderful picture of the church as the body of Christ in two distinct ways. It’s important not to confuse them. In 1 Corinthians 12, the whole body (including the head) works together. But in Ephesians 1 we have a different picture: Christ is the Head and we are the body. There’s no such thing in the New Testament as a Christ-le...
1. Christ is the head of the church. The church belongs to Christ, not because we’ve decided to make Him the head, but because He is the head and He’s decided to make us the body. The body serves at the direction of the head. Our calling is to be responsive to Him. 2. Every member of the body needs to be connected to the Head. John Stott speaks abo...
The Body of Christ. 12 A person’s body is one thing, but it has many parts. Yes, there are many parts to a body, but all those parts make only one body. Christ is like that too. 13 Some of us are Jews, and some of us are Greeks. Some of us are slaves, and some of us are free. But we were all baptized into one body through one Spirit.
Paul has written much about the body of Christ in 1 Corinthians. Now he uses the illustration of a human body to show how Christians, each with their individual spiritual gifts, are intended by God to work together.
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27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it. 28 And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues.…
