As the body is one, and hath many members, . . . so also is Christ.—I COR. 12:12.
He is the head of the body, the church.—The head over things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.—We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
A body hast thou prepared me.—Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Thine they were, and thou gavest them me.—He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world.—Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.
Grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: from whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth . . . maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Col. 1:18. -Eph. 1:22,23. -Eph. 5:30.Heb. 10:5. -Psa. 139:16.John 17:6. -Eph. 1:4. -Rom. 8:29.Eph. 4:15,16.