If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?

but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, ¹  but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed ¹  – perhaps of wheat or something else.

And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another.

Therefore we do not despair, ¹  but even if our physical body ²  is wearing away, our inner person ³  is being renewed day by day.

Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away ¹  from the body and at home with the Lord.

For even when we came into Macedonia, our body ¹  had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way – struggles from the outside, fears from within.

namely, that through the gospel ¹  the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members ²  of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.

For no one has ever hated his own body ¹  but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

Now if I am to go on living in the body, ¹  this will mean productive work ²  for me, yet I don’t know which I prefer: ³ 

but now he has reconciled you ¹  by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –

Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart (for you were in fact called as one body ¹  to this peace), and be thankful.

So when he came into the world, he said, “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

So too the tongue is a small part of the body, ¹  yet it has great pretensions. ²  Think ³  how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

He ¹  himself bore our sins ²  in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning ³  and live for righteousness. By his ⁴  wounds ⁵  you were healed. ⁶ 

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell. ¹ 

If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.

Joseph of Arimathea, a highly regarded member of the council, ¹  who was himself looking forward to ²  the kingdom of God, ³  went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. ⁴