1 Corinthians 12:27

¹²for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

³⁰because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

²⁴Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

⁵so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

¹²For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

¹⁴For the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵If the foot would say, “Because I’m not the hand, I’m not part of the body,” it is not therefore not part of the body. ¹⁶If the ear would say, “Because I’m not the eye, I’m not part of the body,” it’s not therefore not part of the body. ¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be? ¹⁸But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired. ¹⁹If they were all one member, where would the body be? ²⁰But now they are many members, but one body.

²³which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

²³For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

¹⁸He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.