Subject: What do you think of this great mystery? |
Bible Note: Hi inmyheart, Thank you for your good thoughts. I had in my study compared: 1 Cor 6:17, "But the one who joins himself to the Lord/ is one spirit with *Him. ..your body is a temple of the Holy (Spirit) who is in you,..." Ephesians 5:29, "for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ/ also does the church, because we are members of *His body...reference to Christ and the church." You have suggested 1 Corinthians 12: perhaps?, 1 Cor 12:9, "to another faith by the same Spirit,/ and to another gifts of healing by the one *Spirit,...but one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as (He) wills." 1 Cor 12:24b, "...But God/ has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another...27 Now you are *Christ's body, and individually members of it." May I add Ephesians to the list along with a request for anyone to add more references to the list. Ephesians 4:4-7, "There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord/, one faith, one baptism, one *God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of (Christ's) gift." Ephesians 3:19, "and to know the love of Christ/ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of *God." 1 John 4:16b, "God/ is love, and the one who abides in love abides in *God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as (He) is, so also are we in this world." May we abide in God and He in us as believers in His body, the church; showing forth His love. 1 John 4:11, "Beloved, if *God so loved us, we also ought to love one another." From the heart, Ray |