The word in Scripture

Body in the Bible

The word body appears 175 times in the King James Version of the Bible. The body of Christ is His people, joined as one under Him. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What body means in the Bible

The body of Christ is His people, joined as one under Him.

Where the word body appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word body appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”Matthew 6:22

“He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.”Matthew 27:58

“And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.”Luke 23:55

“But he spake of the temple of his body.”John 2:21

“Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.”John 19:40

“Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.”Romans 6:12

“And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.”Romans 8:10

“Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.”1 Corinthians 12:27