Body Image

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments, — read the full passage →

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price, — read the full passage →

the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,

for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;

who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,

And himself is the head of the body--the assembly--who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all <FI>things<Fi> --himself--first,

Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned;

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also <FI>is<Fi> the Christ,

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with <FI>him<Fi> , that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy--`According to the proportion of faith!'

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might--through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, and James, and John his brother, and doth bring them up to a high mount by themselves, — read the full passage →

ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens is perfect.

we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace--for seasonable help.

and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets, — read the full passage →

for a man is not of a woman, but a woman <FI>is<Fi> of a man, — read the full passage →

Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make <FI>them<Fi> members of an harlot? let it be not!

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also <FI>is<Fi> the Christ, — read the full passage →

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting--the redemption of our body;

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;