WEB - World English Bible
You must, of course, continue faithful on a firm and sure foundation, and must not allow yourselves to be shaken from the hope you gained when you heard the gospel. It is of this gospel that I, Paul, became a servant---this gospel which has been preached to everybody in the world.
(Colossians 1:23 GNB)
And now I am happy about my sufferings for you, for by means of my physical sufferings I am helping to complete what still remains of Christ's sufferings on behalf of his body, the church.
(Colossians 1:24 GNB)
We have many parts in the one body, and all these parts have different functions.
(Romans 12:4 GNB)
In the same way, though we are many, we are one body in union with Christ, and we are all joined to each other as different parts of one body.
(Romans 12:5 GNB)
So we are to use our different gifts in accordance with the grace that God has given us. If our gift is to speak God's message, we should do it according to the faith that we have;
(Romans 12:6 GNB)
if it is to serve, we should serve; if it is to teach, we should teach;
(Romans 12:7 GNB)
if it is to encourage others, we should do so. Whoever shares with others should do it generously; whoever has authority should work hard; whoever shows kindness to others should do it cheerfully.
(Romans 12:8 GNB)
There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them.
(1 Corinthians 12:4 GNB)
There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served.
(1 Corinthians 12:5 GNB)
There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to all for their particular service.
(1 Corinthians 12:6 GNB)
Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts.
(1 Corinthians 12:12 GNB)
In the same way, all of us, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether slaves or free, have been baptized into the one body by the same Spirit, and we have all been given the one Spirit to drink.
(1 Corinthians 12:13 GNB)
For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.
(1 Corinthians 12:14 GNB)
All of you are Christ's body, and each one is a part of it.
(1 Corinthians 12:27 GNB)
In the church God has put all in place: in the first place apostles, in the second place prophets, and in the third place teachers; then those who perform miracles, followed by those who are given the power to heal or to help others or to direct them or to speak in strange tongues.
(1 Corinthians 12:28 GNB)
This is what I mean, my friends. When you meet for worship, one person has a hymn, another a teaching, another a revelation from God, another a message in strange tongues, and still another the explanation of what is said. Everything must be of help to the church.
(1 Corinthians 14:26 GNB)
For this reason, ever since I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all of God's people,
(Ephesians 1:15 GNB)
I have not stopped giving thanks to God for you. I remember you in my prayers
(Ephesians 1:16 GNB)
and ask the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and reveal God to you, so that you will know him.
(Ephesians 1:17 GNB)
I ask that your minds may be opened to see his light, so that you will know what is the hope to which he has called you, how rich are the wonderful blessings he promises his people,
(Ephesians 1:18 GNB)
and how very great is his power at work in us who believe. This power working in us is the same as the mighty strength
(Ephesians 1:19 GNB)
which he used when he raised Christ from death and seated him at his right side in the heavenly world.
(Ephesians 1:20 GNB)
Christ rules there above all heavenly rulers, authorities, powers, and lords; he has a title superior to all titles of authority in this world and in the next.
(Ephesians 1:21 GNB)
God put all things under Christ's feet and gave him to the church as supreme Lord over all things.
(Ephesians 1:22 GNB)
The church is Christ's body, the completion of him who himself completes all things everywhere.
(Ephesians 1:23 GNB)
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
(Ephesians 2:4 WEB)
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
(Ephesians 2:5 WEB)
and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
(Ephesians 2:6 WEB)
that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
(Ephesians 2:7 WEB)
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
(Ephesians 2:8 WEB)
not of works, that no one would boast.
(Ephesians 2:9 WEB)
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
(Ephesians 2:10 WEB)
Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);
(Ephesians 2:11 WEB)
that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
(Ephesians 2:12 WEB)
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
(Ephesians 2:13 WEB)
For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,
(Ephesians 2:14 WEB)
having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;
(Ephesians 2:15 WEB)
and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
(Ephesians 2:16 WEB)
He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
(Ephesians 2:17 WEB)
For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
(Ephesians 2:18 WEB)
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
(Ephesians 2:19 WEB)
being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
(Ephesians 2:20 WEB)
in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
(Ephesians 2:21 WEB)
in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
(Ephesians 2:22 WEB)
It was he who "gave gifts to people"; he appointed some to be apostles, others to be prophets, others to be evangelists, others to be pastors and teachers.
(Ephesians 4:11 GNB)
He did this to prepare all God's people for the work of Christian service, in order to build up the body of Christ.
(Ephesians 4:12 GNB)
Instead, by speaking the truth in a spirit of love, we must grow up in every way to Christ, who is the head.
(Ephesians 4:15 GNB)
Under his control all the different parts of the body fit together, and the whole body is held together by every joint with which it is provided. So when each separate part works as it should, the whole body grows and builds itself up through love.
(Ephesians 4:16 GNB)
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