Ephesians 1:23
for the Church is Christ’s Body, and is filled by him who fills all things everywhere with his presence.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
In Context
22And God placed ‘all things under Christ’s feet,’ and gave him to the Church as its supreme Head;
Cross References
Romans 13:5You are bound, therefore, to obey, not only through fear of God’s punishments, but also as a matter of conscience.
1 Corinthians 12:12For just as the human body is one whole, and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many though they are, form but one body, so it is with the Christ;
Ephesians 2:16And when, upon the cross, he had destroyed their mutual enmity, he sought by means of his cross to reconcile them both to God, united in one Body.
Ephesians 4:4There is but one Body and one Spirit, just as there was but one hope set before you when you received your Call.
Ephesians 4:12to fit his People 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 Church, which is his Body. The First-born from the dead, he is to the Church the Source of its Life, that he, in all things, may stand first.
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 →