From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
Cross References
Romans 12:4Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function,
1 Corinthians 10:17Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.
Ephesians 1:4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
Colossians 2:19He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
Treasury of Scripture
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body to the edifying of itself in love.
whom.
Ephesians 4:12
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
John 15:5
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
fitly.
Job 10:10,11
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? …
Psalm 139:15,16
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth…
1 Corinthians 12:12-28
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ…
the effectual.
Ephesians 3:7
Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
edifying.
Ephesians 4:15
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Ephesians 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Ephesians 3:17
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
