Ephesians 4:16

From Christ the head, the whole body is joined together and grows as each part does its work in love. Every member's contribution builds up the church.

Cross-references · 26

• 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.
• John 15:5I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
• Col 2:2that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
• 1 Cor 13:13But now faith, hope, and love remain — these three. The greatest of these is love.
• Eph 4:12for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
• Eph 4:15but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
• 1 Tim 1:5but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;
• 1 Th 2:13For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
• Phil 1:9This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
• Eph 3:17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• 1 Jn 4:16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
• 1 Cor 12:12–28For 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 Th 4:9–10But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• Ps 139:15–16My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
• Eph 3:7of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
• Eph 1:4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Gal 5:13–14For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
• 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
• 1 Cor 13:4–9Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
• 1 Th 3:12and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
• 2 Th 1:3We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
• Job 10:10–11Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
• 1 Cor 8:1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

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