1 Corinthians 12:12 Cross References - Common

¹² For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

⁴ For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function, ⁵ so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

¹⁷ Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.

¹⁶ Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, "And to seeds," as referring to many, but rather to one, "And to your seed," that is, Christ.

²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call,

¹² to equip the saints for the work of service, for the building up of the body of Christ;

¹⁵ But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into him, who is the head, into Christ, ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, being joined and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each part, causes the growth of the body and builds itself up in love.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is himself the Savior.

³⁰ because we are members of his body.

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might have the first place in everything.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share for the sake of his body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions.

¹⁹ and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

¹⁵ Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful.