Colossians 2:19
And not holding the fHead, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
καὶ οὐ κρατῶν τὴν κεφαλήν, ἐξ οὗ πᾶν τὸ σῶμα, διὰ τῶν ἁφῶν καὶ συνδέσμων ἐπιχορηγούμενον καὶ συμβιβαζόμενον, αὔξει τὴν αὔξησιν τοῦ Θεοῦ.
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Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
1 Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 12:12 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.
1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Ephesians 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Ephesians 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Ephesians 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Ephesians 1:22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Ephesians 1:23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Ephesians 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
John 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
Colossians 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
here the apostle suggests, that those things he had before taxed did proceed from hence, that they let go the Lord Christ himself, Col 2:8,9, from whom all truths are to be derived, and consequently he is all truth itself, Joh 14:6; not to adhere to him is the spring of all apostacies, lie being the Head: see Eph 4:15,16.
whence is communicated and distributed such influence to the body, the church, as is necessary to all the sensations and motions thereof.
being in all its members fitly framed together by the Spirit, Eph 2:21,22, and united by faith, Eph 3:17, hath a continual subsidy of life and vigour.
and fastened together in a spiritual union, which joineth all believers to their Head, and each of them to the other in him, 1Co 10:17 12:12,20,25,27.
whereupon, to mutual edification in love, it groweth with a Divine growth and spiritual increase, arising from the efficacy of God, and tending to his glory; being filled with the influences of his grace, 1Co 3:6, it is established and strengthened by little and little, in light and purity, and all graces, till it attain to the measure of its perfect stature in Christ Jesus our Lord; whereas an increase in the traditions of men, and the inventions of flesh, do only blow it up with wens and imposthumes, to the disfiguring, deforming, and destroying of it.