# 398 – The Unparalleled One Body Of Christ
Ephesians 1:13-23, 2:14-26, 3:5-6, 4:4, 11-12, 15-16, 5:23, 29-30, 4:17-5:8, 4:32-5:2, 4:17,
Romans 5:19, 26, Ephesians 5:6, 5:19-21
WT#398
The One Body of Christ
EPHESIANS*
1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us who believe. That power is according to the working of the strength of His ability,
20 which He energized in the Christ when He raised him from the dead and caused him to sit at His right side in the heavenly realm
21 far above every ruler and authority and power and lordship, even every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the coming age.
22 He put all things in subjection under his feet and made him head over all things in the Church,
23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all things in all people.
2:14 In fact, he is our peace, who has made both [Judeans and Gentiles] one…
15 … so that he could create in himself one new man from the two (thus making peace)
16 and so that he could reconcile them both to God in one body by means of the cross, by which he killed the hostility.
3:5 In other generations, it was not made known to the sons of men as it has now been revealed to his holy [sanctified] apostles and prophets by the Spirit,
6 namely, that the Gentiles should be joint heirs and joint members of the same body and joint partakers of the promise [what was promised] in Christ Jesus by the gospel.
4:4 There is one body, and one spirit, even as you were also called in one hope of your calling.
4:11 and He gave the apostles and the prophets and the gospel messengers and the shepherds and teachers.
12 He gave them for the complete equipping of the holy [sanctified] ones, for the work of the ministry [service], for the edifying of the body of Christ.
15 In contrast, as we speak the truth in love, let us grow up in all ways in him who is the head, even Christ.
16 From him, the entire body, which is framed together and united by every joint of supply, causes the growth of the body by the measurable working of each single part for the edifying of itself in love.
5:23 because the husband is head of the wife as Christ is also head of the Church. He is the savior of the body.
29 As a matter of fact, no one has ever hated his own flesh, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, even as Christ also does for the Church
30 because we are members of his body.
- From the Working Translation, A Journey through the Acts and Epistles,
Copyright © 2006 by Walter J. Cummins. All rights reserved.
