¹⁶ and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross,^(A) by which he put to death their hostility.

⁴ There is one body^(A) and one Spirit,^(B) just as you were called to one hope when you were called^(C); ⁵ one Lord,^(D) one faith, one baptism;

³⁰ for we are members of his body.^{(A) 31} “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”^{[a](B) 32} This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.

Paul’s Labor for the Church

²⁴ Now I rejoice^(A) in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions,^(B) for the sake of his body, which is the church.^(C)

¹⁹ They have lost connection with the head,^(A) from whom the whole body,^(B) supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.^(C)