Ephesians 1:23

The Passion Translation

And now we, his church, are his body on the earth and that which fills him who is being filled by it!

Cross References

John 1:16

And from the overflow of his fullness we received grace heaped upon more grace!

Romans 13:5

You are compelled to obey them, not just to avoid punishment, but because you want to live with a clean conscience.

1 Corinthians 12:6

The same God distributes different kinds of miracles that accomplish different results through each believer’s gift and ministry as he energizes and activates them.

1 Corinthians 15:28

However, when everything is subdued and in submission to him, then the Son himself will be subject to the Father, who put all things under his feet. This is so that Father God will be everything in everyone!

Ephesians 2:16

Two have now become one, and we live restored to God and reconciled in the body of Christ. Through his crucifixion, hatred died.

Ephesians 3:10

The purpose of this was to unveil before every throne and rank of angelic orders in the heavenly realm God’s full and diverse wisdom revealed through the church.

Ephesians 4:10

The same one who descended is also the one who ascended above the heights of heaven, in order to begin the restoration and fulfillment of all things.

Ephesians 4:12

And their calling is to nurture and prepare all the holy believers to do their own works of ministry, and as they do this they will enlarge and build up the body of Christ.

Ephesians 4:13

These grace ministries will function until we all attain oneness into the faith, until we all experience the fullness of what it means to know the Son of God, and finally we become one into a perfect man with the full dimensions of spiritual maturity and fully developed into the abundance of Christ.

Ephesians 4:4

being one body and one spirit, as you were all called into the same glorious hope of divine destiny.

Colossians 1:24

I can even celebrate the sorrows I have experienced on your behalf; for as I join with you in your difficulties, it helps you to discover what lacks in your understanding of the sufferings Jesus Christ experienced for his body, the church.

Colossians 2:19

They refuse to take hold of the true source. But we receive directly from him, and his life supplies vitality into every part of his body through the joining ligaments connecting us all as one. He is the divine Head who guides his body and causes it to grow by the supernatural power of God.

Colossians 3:11

In this new creation life, your nationality makes no difference, nor your ethnicity, education, nor economic status—they matter nothing. For it is Christ that means everything as he lives in every one of us!

Colossians 3:15

Let your heart be always guided by the peace of the Anointed One, who called you to peace as part of his one body. And always be thankful.