Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.

Now the church is ¹  his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. ² 

but it is more vital for your sake that I remain ¹  in the body. ² 

that each of you know how to possess his own body ¹  in holiness and honor,

And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, ¹  or the body of someone who died of natural causes, ²  or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days. ³ 

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry ¹  about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing?

Do ¹  not be afraid of those who kill the body ²  but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. ³ 

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders ¹ ), ²  asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate ³  gave him permission, so he went and took the body away. ⁴ 

“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” ¹  The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

If the foot says, “Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

And if the ear says, “Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

“When a man or a woman has bright spots – white bright spots – on the skin of their body,

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man ¹  has a discharge ²  from his body, ³  his discharge is unclean.

“‘When a man has a seminal emission, ¹  he must bathe his whole body in water ²  and be unclean until evening,

You must not slash your body for a dead person ¹  or incise a tattoo on yourself. ²  I am the Lord.

“‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact ¹  a dead body. ² 

When I refused to confess my sin, ¹  my whole body wasted away, ²  while I groaned in pain all day long.