Quotes About Body

For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.

And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.

If they were all one part, where would the body be?

As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”

whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

so that there should be no division in the body, but that its members should have mutual concern for one another.

Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.

But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.

We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

So we aspire to please Him, whether we are here in this body or away from it.

Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

And I know that this man—whether in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows—

which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;

to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ,

From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.

Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.