1 Corinthians 12:27 Cross References - ISV

²⁷ Now you are the Messiah’s body and individual parts of it.

⁵ In the same way, even though we are many people, we are one body in the Messiah and individual parts connected to each other.

¹² The Unity and Diversity of Spiritual GiftsFor just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.

¹⁴ For the body does not consist of only one part, but of many. ¹⁵ If the foot says, “Since I’m not a hand, I’m not part of the body,” that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it? ¹⁶ And if the ear says, “Since I’m not an eye, I’m not part of the body,” that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it? ¹⁷ 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? ¹⁸ But now God has arranged the parts, every one of them, in the body according to his plan. ¹⁹ Now if all of it were one part, there wouldn’t be a body, would there? ²⁰ So there are many parts, but one body.

²³ which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills everything in every way.

¹² to equip the saints, to do the work of ministry, and to build up the body of the Messiah

²³ For the husband is the head of his wife as the Messiah is the head of the church. It is he who is the Savior of the body.

³⁰ For we are parts of his body—of his flesh and of his bones.

¹⁸ He is also the head of the body, which is the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself might have first place in everything.

²⁴ Paul’s Service in the ChurchNow I am rejoicing while suffering for you as I complete in my flesh whatever remains of the Messiah’s sufferings on behalf of his body, which is the church.