which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
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. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
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,
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
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. 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. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 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. 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.
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
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. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
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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