Rev 18:13 – cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.
Terms in conjunction with “body”
Member
Mt 5:29 – If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
Mt 5:30 – And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
Rom 12:4 – For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,
Rom 12:5 – so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
1 Cor 6:15 – Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
1 Cor 12:12 – 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.
1 Cor 12:14 – For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
1 Cor 12:18 – But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
1 Cor 12:19 – If all were a single member, where would the body be?
1 Cor 12:20 – As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
1 Cor 12:22 – On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
1 Cor 12:25 – that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Eph 5:30 – because we are members of his body.
Jas 3:6 – And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
Spirit
1 Cor 7:34 – and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.
1 Cor 15:44 – It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Eph 4:4 – There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call–
1 Thess 5:23 – Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jas 2:26 – For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Soul
Mt 10:28 – And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
1 Thess 5:23 – Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Life
Mt 6:25 – "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Blood
1 Cor 11:27 – Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
Whose body
Jesus Christ
Jesus’ words about His body
Taking and eating His body
Mt 26:26 – Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
Mk 14:22 – And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body."
Lk 22:19 – And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
1 Cor 11:24 – and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
Cf. Jn 6:51-58
Anointing of His body
Mt 26:12 – In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.
Mk 14:8 – She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial.
The temple of His body
Jn 2:19 – Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
Jn 2:21 – But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
Prepared by God
Heb 10:5 – Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;
Jesus’ body upon His death and burial
Mt 27:58 – He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.
Mt 27:59 – And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud
Mk 15:43 – Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the Council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
Lk 23:52 – This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
Lk 23:55 – The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid.
Jn 19:31 – Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.
Jn 19:38 – After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.
Jn 19:40 – So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
Jn 20:12 – And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.
Not finding the Lord’s body upon His resurrection
Lk 24:3 – but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
Lk 24:23 – and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
Cf. Jn 20:12
What is accomplished through the body of Christ
We have died to the law and to sin
Rom 7:4 – Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
1 Pet 2:24 – He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
We are reconciled to God
Eph 2:16 – and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Col 1:22 – he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,
We are sanctified
Heb 10:10 – And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Christ bore our sins
1 Pet 2:24 – He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
See also “<topic id=“404” startswith=“Redemption through” nth=“1”>Redemption through Jesus’ flesh</topic>.”
Partaking of the body of Christ
Mt 26:26 – Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
Mk 14:22 – And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body."
Lk 22:19 – And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
1 Cor 10:16 – The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
1 Cor 11:24 – and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
1 Cor 11:27 – Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
1 Cor 11:29 – For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
Cf. Jn 6:51-58
Description of Jesus’ body
Phil 3:21 – who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Col 2:9 – For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
Believers as the body of Christ
Rom 12:5 – so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
1 Cor 12:23 – and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
1 Cor 12:24 – which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
1 Cor 12:25 – that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Eph 1:23 – which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Eph 4:4 – There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call–
Eph 4:12 – to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Eph 4:16 – 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.
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Eph 5:30 – because we are members of his body.
Col 1:18 – And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
Col 1:24 – Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
Col 2:19 – and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
Col 3:15 – And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
The body as an analogy for the body of Christ
1 Cor 12:14 – For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
1 Cor 12:15 – If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
1 Cor 12:16 – 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.
1 Cor 12:17 – If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
1 Cor 12:18 – But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
1 Cor 12:19 – If all were a single member, where would the body be?
1 Cor 12:20 – As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
1 Cor 12:22 – On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
1 Cor 12:23 – and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
1 Cor 12:24 – which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
Body versus shadow
Col 2:16 – Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. [footnote text="The Greek phrase behind "the substance belongs to Christ" is literally "the body of Christ.""]
See also
<topic id=“404” startswith=“God in the flesh” nth=“1”>God in the flesh</topic>
<topic id=“404” startswith=“Redemption through” nth=“1”>Redemption through Jesus’ flesh</topic>
1 Cor 5:3 – For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
1 Cor 9:27 – But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
1 Cor 13:3 – If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
2 Cor 4:10 – always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
2 Cor 10:10 – For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account."
2 Cor 12:2 – I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
2 Cor 12:3 – And I know that this man was caught up into paradise–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows–
Gal 6:17 – From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
Phil 1:20 – as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
The Holy Spirit
Lk 3:22 – and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased."
Saints
Mt 27:52 – The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,
Woman with discharge of blood
Mk 5:29 – And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
Those crucified
Jn 19:31 – Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.
Tabitha
Acts 9:40 – But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, arise." And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.
The ungodly
Rom 1:24 – Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
Abraham
Rom 4:19 – He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
Husbands
1 Cor 7:4 – For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Eph 5:28 – In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Wives
1 Cor 7:4 – For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Ministers
2 Cor 4:10 – always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
Animals
Heb 13:11 – For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.
Horses
Jas 3:3 – If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.
Moses
Jude 1:9 – But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
The Lord’s teachings about the body
Do not be anxious about the body
Mt 6:25 – "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Lk 12:22 – And he said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.
Lk 12:23 – For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.
Warning about our body being thrown into hell
Mt 5:29 – If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
Mt 5:30 – And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
Mt 10:28 – And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
The eye and the body
Mt 6:22 – "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
Mt 6:23 – but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Lk 11:34 – Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.
Lk 11:36 – If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light."
Believers and the body
What we ought to do with our body
Put to death the deeds of the body
Rom 8:13 – For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Present our bodies as a living sacrifice
Rom 12:1 – I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Glorify God in our body
1 Cor 6:13 – "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"–and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Cor 6:15 – Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
1 Cor 6:16 – Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh."
1 Cor 6:18 – Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
1 Cor 6:19 – Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Cor 6:20 – for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Providing for the bodily needs of a brother or sister
Jas 2:15 – If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
Jas 2:16 – and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?
Other teachings
Rom 6:6 – We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Rom 8:23 – And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
2 Cor 5:6 – So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
2 Cor 5:8 – Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Phil 3:21 – who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Col 2:11 – In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
1 Thess 5:23 – Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Tim 4:8 – for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
Heb 13:3 – Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
Jas 3:2 – For we all stumble in many ways, and if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
Jas 3:3 – If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.
Jas 3:6 – And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
Actions done to the body
Kill
Mt 10:28 – And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Lk 12:4 – "I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.
Raise up
Mt 27:52 – The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,
Acts 9:40 – But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, arise." And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.
Present as sacrifice
Rom 12:1 – I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Discipline
1 Cor 9:27 – But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Severity
Col 2:23 – These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
Be kept blameless
1 Thess 5:23 – Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Wash
Heb 10:22 – let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Burn
Heb 13:11 – For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.
Descriptions of our body
Mortal
Rom 6:12 – Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
Rom 7:24 – Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Rom 8:10 – But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Rom 8:11 – If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Body of sin
Rom 6:6 – We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Members of Christ
1 Cor 6:15 – Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
A temple of the Holy Spirit
1 Cor 6:19 – Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
Natural versus spiritual
1 Cor 15:44 – It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Lowly
Phil 3:21 – who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Body of the flesh
Col 2:11 – In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
Blameless
1 Thess 5:23 – Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The resurrected body
1 Cor 15:35 – But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"
1 Cor 15:37 – And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
1 Cor 15:38 – But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
1 Cor 15:40 – There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.
1 Cor 15:44 – It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Specific members in relation to the whole body
The eye
Mt 6:22 – "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
Mt 6:23 – but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Lk 11:34 – Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.
Lk 11:36 – If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light."
1 Cor 12:17 – If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
The tongue
Jas 3:2 – For we all stumble in many ways, and if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
Jas 3:3 – If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.
Jas 3:6 – And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
Foot
1 Cor 12:15 – If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
Ear
1 Cor 12:16 – 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.
Words related grammatically to "body" (σῶμα)
Subjects of "Body" (σῶμα)
This/he/she/it, οὗτος
Mt 26:26 – Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
Mk 14:22 – And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body."
Lk 22:19 – And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
1 Cor 11:24 – and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
Much, πολύς
Rom 12:5 – so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
1 Cor 10:17 – Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
Lord, κύριος
1 Cor 6:13 – "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"–and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
To join, κολλάω
1 Cor 6:16 – Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh."
Member, μέλος
1 Cor 12:12 – 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.
You, σύ
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Who/which, ὅστις, ἥτις
Eph 1:23 – which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Verbs with "Body" (σῶμα) as Subject
To be, εἰμί
Mt 6:22 – "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
Mt 6:23 – but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Lk 11:34 – Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.
1 Cor 6:15 – Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
1 Cor 6:19 – Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Cor 12:12 – 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.
1 Cor 12:14 – For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
1 Cor 15:44 – It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Jas 2:26 – For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
To arise, ἐγείρω
Mt 27:52 – The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,
1 Cor 15:44 – It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
To throw, βάλλω
Mt 5:29 – If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
To go away, ἀπέρχομαι
Mt 5:30 – And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
To place, τίθημι
Lk 23:55 – The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid.
To stay, μένω
Jn 19:31 – Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.
To lay/be appointed, κεῖμαι
Jn 20:12 – And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.
To dishonor, ἀτιμάζω
Rom 1:24 – Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
To end, καταργέω
Rom 6:6 – We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
To sow, σπείρω
1 Cor 15:44 – It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
To do/make, ποιέω
Eph 4:16 – 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.
To grow, αὐξάνω
Col 2:19 – and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
To keep, τηρέω
1 Thess 5:23 – Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
To burn, κατακαίω
Heb 13:11 – For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.
Verbs with "Body" (σῶμα) as Object
To ask, αἰτέω
Mt 27:58 – He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.
Mk 15:43 – Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the Council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
Lk 23:52 – This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
To kill, ἀποκτείνω
Mt 10:28 – And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Lk 12:4 – "I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.
To take, λαμβάνω
Mt 27:59 – And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud
Jn 19:40 – So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
To find/meet, εὑρίσκω
Lk 24:3 – but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
Lk 24:23 – and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
To destroy, ἀπολλύω
Mt 10:28 – And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
To anoint, μυρίζω
Mk 14:8 – She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial.
To take up, αἴρω
Jn 19:38 – After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.
To observe, κατανοέω
Rom 4:19 – He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
To make alive, ζωοποιέω
Rom 8:11 – If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
To stand by, παρίστημι
Rom 12:1 – I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
To wear out, ὑπωπιάζω
1 Cor 9:27 – But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
To judge/doubt, διακρίνω
1 Cor 11:29 – For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
To unite, συγκεράννυμι
1 Cor 12:24 – which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
To deliver, παραδίδωμι
1 Cor 13:3 – If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
To sow, σπείρω
1 Cor 15:37 – And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
To give, δίδωμι
1 Cor 15:38 – But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
To transform, μετασχηματίζω
Phil 3:21 – who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
To complete, καταρτίζω
Heb 10:5 – Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;
To bridle, χαλιναγωγέω
Jas 3:2 – For we all stumble in many ways, and if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
To turn, μετάγω
Jas 3:3 – If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.
To stain, σπιλόω
Jas 3:6 – And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
Adjectives Modifying "Body" (σῶμα)
All, ὅλος
Mt 5:29 – If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
Mt 5:30 – And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
Mt 6:22 – "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
Mt 6:23 – but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Lk 11:34 – Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.
Lk 11:36 – If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light."
1 Cor 12:17 – If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
Jas 3:2 – For we all stumble in many ways, and if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
Jas 3:3 – If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.
Jas 3:6 – And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
One, εἷς
Rom 12:4 – For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,
Rom 12:5 – so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
1 Cor 6:16 – Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh."
1 Cor 10:17 – Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
1 Cor 12:12 – 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.
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Eph 2:16 – and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Eph 4:4 – There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call–
Col 3:15 – And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
One's own/private, ἴδιος
1 Cor 6:18 – Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
1 Cor 7:4 – For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
1 Cor 15:38 – But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
Mortal, θνητός
Rom 6:12 – Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
Rom 8:11 – If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
All, πᾶς
Eph 4:16 – 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.
Col 2:19 – and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
Much, πολύς
Mt 27:52 – The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,
What?, ποῖος
1 Cor 15:35 – But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"
Earthly, ἐπίγειος
1 Cor 15:40 – There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.
Heavenly, ἐπουράνιος
1 Cor 15:40 – There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.
Spiritual, πνευματικός
1 Cor 15:44 – It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Natural, ψυχικός
1 Cor 15:44 – It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Whole, ὁλόκληρος
1 Thess 5:23 – Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Adverbs Modifying "Body" (σῶμα)
And, καί
Lk 11:34 – Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.
Rom 8:11 – If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
1 Cor 12:14 – For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
Jas 3:2 – For we all stumble in many ways, and if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
Jas 3:3 – If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.
Words Modified by "Body" (σῶμα)
To be, εἰμί
1 Cor 7:34 – and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.
1 Cor 11:27 – Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
To know, γινώσκω
Mk 5:29 – And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
Be away, ἄπειμι
1 Cor 5:3 – For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
To have authority, ἐξουσιάζω
1 Cor 7:4 – For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
To come/go, ἔρχομαι
1 Cor 15:35 – But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"
To wash, λούω
Heb 10:22 – let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Predicates of "Body" (σῶμα)
Bright, φωτεινός
Mt 6:22 – "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
Lk 11:34 – Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.
Lk 11:36 – If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light."
Dark, σκοτεινός
Mt 6:23 – but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Lk 11:34 – Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.
Dead, νεκρός
Rom 8:10 – But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Jas 2:26 – For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Member, μέλος
1 Cor 6:15 – Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
1 Cor 12:14 – For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
One, εἷς
1 Cor 12:12 – 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.
1 Cor 12:20 – As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
Where(-ever), ὅπου
Lk 17:37 – And they said to him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather."
Lord, κύριος
1 Cor 6:13 – "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"–and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Sexual sin, πορνεία
1 Cor 6:13 – "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"–and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Temple, ναός
1 Cor 6:19 – Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
Much, πολύς
1 Cor 12:14 – For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
Eye, ὀφθαλμός
1 Cor 12:17 – If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
Where?, ποῦ
1 Cor 12:19 – If all were a single member, where would the body be?
Christ, Χριστός
Col 2:17 – These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Appositions with "Body" (σῶμα)
To give, δίδωμι
Lk 22:19 – And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
The/this/who, ὁ
1 Cor 11:24 – and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
To be, γίνομαι
1 Cor 15:37 – And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
Fulfillment, πλήρωμα
Eph 1:23 – which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Assembly, ἐκκλησία
Col 1:18 – And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
Prepositions with "Body" (σῶμα)
In/on/among, ἐν
Rom 6:12 – Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
Rom 12:4 – For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,
1 Cor 6:20 – for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Cor 12:18 – But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
1 Cor 12:25 – that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
2 Cor 4:10 – always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
2 Cor 5:6 – So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
2 Cor 12:2 – I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
2 Cor 12:3 – And I know that this man was caught up into paradise–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows–
Gal 6:17 – From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
Eph 2:16 – and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Phil 1:20 – as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
Col 1:22 – he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,
Col 3:15 – And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Heb 13:3 – Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
1 Pet 2:24 – He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Of/from, ἐκ
Rom 7:24 – Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
1 Cor 12:15 – If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
1 Cor 12:16 – 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.
2 Cor 5:8 – Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Through/because of, διά
Rom 7:4 – Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Toward, εἰς
1 Cor 6:18 – Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
1 Cor 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Outside/except, ἐκτός
1 Cor 6:18 – Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
2 Cor 12:2 – I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
Upon/to/against, ἐπί
Mt 26:12 – In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.
To/with, πρός
Acts 9:40 – But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, arise." And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.
Without, χωρίς
2 Cor 12:3 – And I know that this man was caught up into paradise–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows–
Above/for, ὑπέρ
Col 1:24 – Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
About, περί
Jude 1:9 – But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
… of "Body" (σῶμα)
Member, μέλος
1 Cor 12:12 – 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.
1 Cor 12:22 – On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
Eph 5:30 – because we are members of his body.
Lamp, λύχνος
Mt 6:22 – "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
Lk 11:34 – Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.
Temple, ναός
Jn 2:21 – But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
Action, πρᾶξις
Rom 8:13 – For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Redemption, ἀπολύτρωσις
Rom 8:23 – And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Participation, κοινωνία
1 Cor 10:16 – The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
Dishonored, ἄτιμος
1 Cor 12:23 – and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
Coming, παρουσία
2 Cor 10:10 – For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account."
Building, οἰκοδομή
Eph 4:12 – to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Growth, αὔξησις
Eph 4:16 – 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.
Savior, σωτήρ
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Head, κεφαλή
Col 1:18 – And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
Removal, ἀπέκδυσις
Col 2:11 – In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
Unsparing, ἀφειδία
Col 2:23 – These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
Offering, προσφορά
Heb 10:10 – And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Necessary, ἐπιτήδειος
Jas 2:16 – and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?
"Body" (σῶμα) of …
You, σύ
Mt 5:29 – If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
Mt 5:30 – And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
Mt 6:22 – "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
Mt 6:23 – but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Mt 6:25 – "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Lk 11:34 – Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.
Lk 11:36 – If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light."
Rom 6:12 – Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
Rom 8:11 – If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Rom 12:1 – I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
1 Cor 6:15 – Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
1 Cor 6:19 – Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Cor 6:20 – for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Thess 5:23 – Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I/we, ἐγώ
Mt 26:12 – In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.
Mt 26:26 – Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
Mk 14:8 – She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial.
Mk 14:22 – And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body."
Lk 22:19 – And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
Rom 8:23 – And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
1 Cor 9:27 – But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
1 Cor 11:24 – and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
1 Cor 13:3 – If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
2 Cor 4:10 – always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
Gal 6:17 – From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
Phil 1:20 – as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
He/she/it/self, αὐτός
Lk 23:55 – The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid.
Lk 24:23 – and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
Jn 2:21 – But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
Jn 19:38 – After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.
Rom 1:24 – Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
Eph 1:23 – which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Eph 5:30 – because we are members of his body.
Col 1:24 – Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
Jas 3:3 – If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.
1 Pet 2:24 – He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Jesus/Joshua, Ἰησοῦς
Mt 27:58 – He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.
Mk 15:43 – Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the Council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
Lk 23:52 – This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
Jn 19:38 – After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.
Jn 19:40 – So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
Jn 20:12 – And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.
Heb 10:10 – And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Christ, Χριστός
Rom 7:4 – Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
1 Cor 10:16 – The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Eph 4:12 – to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Lord, κύριος
Lk 24:3 – but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
1 Cor 11:27 – Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
My/your/him-self, ἑαυτοῦ
Rom 4:19 – He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
Eph 5:28 – In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Flesh, σάρξ
Col 1:22 – he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,
Col 2:11 – In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
Holy, ἅγιος
Mt 27:52 – The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,
Sin, ἁμαρτία
Rom 6:6 – We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Death, θάνατος
Rom 7:24 – Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Glory, δόξα
Phil 3:21 – who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Lowliness, ταπείνωσις
Phil 3:21 – who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
This/he/she/it, οὗτος
Heb 13:11 – For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.
Moses, Μωϋσῆς, Μωσῆς
Jude 1:9 – But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
Verbal Copula of "Body" (σῶμα)
To be, εἰμί
Mt 26:26 – Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
Mk 14:22 – And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body."
Lk 22:19 – And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
Rom 12:5 – so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
1 Cor 6:16 – Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh."
1 Cor 10:17 – Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
1 Cor 11:24 – and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
1 Cor 12:12 – 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.
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Eph 1:23 – which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
… and "Body" (σῶμα)
Body, σῶμα
1 Cor 15:40 – There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.
"Body" (σῶμα) and …
Blood, αἷμα
1 Cor 11:27 – Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
Member, μέλος
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Body, σῶμα
1 Cor 15:40 – There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.
Spirit/breath, πνεῦμα
Eph 4:4 – There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call–
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