because we are parts of his body.
Don’t you know that your bodies are part of Christ himself? Should I take a part of Christ and join it to a prostitute? Never!
In the same way, we are all part of one body in Christ, even though there are many of us. And each part of the body belongs to all the other parts.
The church is Christ’s body, and he fills it as he fills everything in every way.
These people aren’t connected anymore to the head, who is Christ. God makes the whole body grow as it’s guided by the head and held together by its tendons and ligaments.
After all, no man ever hated his own body. Instead, he feeds and cares for it. And this is what Christ does for the church,
