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• 1Cor 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.
• 1Cor 12:27 — Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
• 1Pet 2:9 — But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• 1Tim 3:15 — But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• Acts 2:42 — And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
• Acts 20:28 — Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
• Col 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.
• Eph 1:22 — And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
• Eph 2:19 — Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
• Eph 4:4 — There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
• Eph 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
• Heb 10:25 — Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
• Matt 16:18 — And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
• Rev 21:2 — And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
• Rom 12:4 — For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

Articles of the historic confessions that address this doctrine.

• Reformed Westminster Confession of Faith 25.1 — Of the Church
• Reformed Baptist 1689 London Baptist Confession 26.5 — Of the Church
• Lutheran Augsburg Confession Article 7 — Of the Church
• Ecumenical Apostles' Creed text — Apostles' Creed
• Anglican Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion Article 24 — Of speaking in the Congregation in such a tongue as the people understandeth
• Roman Catholic Council of Trent (Decrees) On the Eucharist · Chapter VIII — On the use of this admirable Sacrament

The earliest Fathers who commented on the Scriptures above.