Ephesians 1:23
which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all his members with all things,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
In Context
22and subjected all things under his feet, and made him head over all things for the church,
Cross References
Romans 13:5Wherefore, it is necessary to be subject, not only because of punishment, but also for conscience sake.
1 Corinthians 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 the Christ.
Ephesians 2:16and that he might reconcile both, in one body, to God, through the cross, having by it put to death the cause of enmity;
Ephesians 4:4There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been called in one hope of your calling;
Ephesians 4:12for the complete instruction of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of the Christ,
Colossians 1:18and he is the head of the body, the church: and he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might be preeminent;
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 1:16-23
The Apostle's Prayer. ( a. d. 61.) 15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, 16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,… Read the whole commentary →