Answer: In Christ, there is ONE body, or ONE church,
(verse 4).
MORE INFORMATION AND/OR OTHER SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
Romans 12:4-5: "Just as each of us
has one body with many members, and these members do not all have
the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and
each member belongs to all the others."
1 Corinthians 12:12-27: "The body
is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its
parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For
we were all baptized by One Spirit into one body--whether Jews
or Greeks, slave or free--and we were all given the One Spirit
to drink. Now the body is not made up of one part but of
many. If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand,
I do not belong to the body,' it would not for that reason
cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say,
'Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,'
it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If
the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If
the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell
be? But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every
one of them, just as He wanted them to be. If they were all
one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many
parts, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I
don't need you!' And the head cannot say to the feet,
'I don't need you!' On the contrary, those parts
of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts
that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And
the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty,
while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has
combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the
parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the
body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each
other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if
one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are
the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of
it."
Ephesians 1:22-23: "And God placed
all things under His [Christ's] feet and appointed Him to be
head over everything for the church, which is His body, the
fullness of Him Who fills everything in every way."
Ephesians 5:22-23, 28-30: "Wives,
submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head
of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which
He is the Savior...In this same way, husbands ought to love
their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves
himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he
feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church--for we
are members of His body."
Colossians 1:18, 22, 24: "And He
[Christ] is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning
and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything He
might have the supremacy...But now He [God] has reconciled you
by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in His
sight, without blemish and free from accusation--...Now I
rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh
what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the
sake of His body, which is the church."
