1 Corinthians 10:17

Because believers share one loaf, they are united as one body. The Supper both signifies and strengthens the unity of the church.

Cross-references · 17

• Rom 12:5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
• Col 3:15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
• 1 Cor 12:12For 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.
• 1 Cor 12:27Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
• Eph 4:4There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
• Eph 4:12–13for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
• Eph 4:25Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
• Eph 4:16from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
• Gal 3:26–28For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
• Eph 2:15–16having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;
• Eph 3:6that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,
• Col 3:11where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
• 1 Cor 10:3–4and all ate the same spiritual food;
• 1 Cor 11:26–28For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
• 1 Cor 10:21You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
• Col 2:19and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
• Eph 1:22–23He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

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