Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

THE BODY HAS AN INTEREST | the Lord Jesus, that the life also of IN CHR ST'S SALVATION. Rom. vi, 6, 12. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Rom. viii, 10, 11, 13, 23. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ trom the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwell eth in you. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption to wit, the redemption of our body.

Rom. xii, 1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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1 Cor. vi. 13, 15, 18-20. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

2 Cor. v, 10. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Gal. vi, 17. From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord

Jesus.

STATURE.

1 Sam. x, 23. And they ran and fetched him [Saul] thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the peo1 Sam. xvii, 4. And there wert ple from his shoulders and upward. out a champion out of the camp of Gath, whose height was six of the Philistines, named Goliath, cubits and a span.

2 Kings v, 2. And the Syrians had brought away captive out of had gone out by companies, and the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.

1 Chron. xi, 23. And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high.

Çant. vii, 7, 8. This thy staturo is like to a palm-tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof. . . . .

Matth. vi. 27. Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

Luke xix, 3. And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was

little of stature.

1 Cor. vii, 34. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is mar-ple ried careth for the things of the world, how she may please her

husband.

1 Cor. ix, 27. But I keep under my body, and bring it into jection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

2 Cor. iv, 10. Always bearing about in the body the dying of

1 Sam. iii, 11. And the LORD a thing in Israel, at which both said to Samuel, Behold, I will do the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.

Job vi, 30. Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Job xii, 11. Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth tasto his meat?

Job xxxiv, 3. For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

Micah vii, 16. The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

APPETITES.

Job xx, 23. When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast tho fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

Job xxxi, 31. If the men of my

tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! wo cannot be satisfied.

Ps. xxvii, 2. When the wicked, eren mine enemies and my foes. caine upon me to cat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Prov. xiii. 25. The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

Prov. xxvii, 7. The full soul loatheth an honeycomb: but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Daniel 1, 12-16. Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's neat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. An at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat. Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.

Micah vi, 14. Thon shalt eat, but not to be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but slit not deliver; and that which thon deliverest will I give up to the sword.

Matth. v, 6. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be

filled.

John vi, 26, 27. Jesus answered them and safe. Verily, verily, I say rato you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but be canse ye did cat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth but for that meat which en lureth unto ever

lasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father scaled.

1 Cor. x, 31. Whether therefore ye cat, or rint, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

(See under Diet and Dress.) CONSTITUENT PARTS OF

BODY.

FLESII.

bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold. it was turned again as his other flesh.

Num. xii, 12. Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.

Job vi, 12. Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

Job xiv, 22. But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

Job xxxiii 25. His flesh shall be fresher than a chill's: he shall return to the days of his youth.

Luke xxiv, 39. Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and sec; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would his raise up Christ to sit on throne.

Rom. ix, 5. Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concernng the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

2 Cor. iv, 11. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Gal. i, 20. And the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Eph. vi, 5. Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ.

Phil. i, 22, 24. But if I live in the desh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

Nevertheless to abide in the Mesh is more needful for you.

Col. ii. 1, 5. For I woull that yo knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh. For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit joying and beholding your order, and the faith in stedfastness of your Christ.

1 Peler iv, 1. Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that

hath suffered in the flesh hath

ceased froin sin.

perform that which is good I find not. I think God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Rom. vili, 3-9. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,

Ezek. vi. 5. And I will lay the dead creases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scat or your bones round about your altars.

Ezek. xxxvii, 1, 3-5, 11. The hand of the LORD was upon me, an i carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the

midst of the valley which was full of bones. And he said unto me, Son of man. can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus saith the Lord God unto

these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: Then said he unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

Ezek. xxxix, 15. And the pasngers that pass through the and, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.

Amos ii. 1. Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

Amos vi, 10. And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that turneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any

with thee? And he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

Matth. xxiii, 27. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beantiful outward, but are within fill of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

are like jewels, the work of the | brother's blood crieth unto me hands of a cunning workman. from the ground.

Col. il, 19. And not holding the head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nour. ishment ministered, and knit together, increasethi with the increase of God.

Deut. xvii. 8. If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judg inent, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy Heb. iv, 12. For the word of God gates: then shalt thon arise, and is quick, and powerful, and sharp-get thee up into the place which er than any two-edged sword, the LORD thy God shall choose. piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow.....

SKIN.

Exod. xxii. 27. For that is his

covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

Job xvi, 15. I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

1 Kings xviii. 28. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manmer with knives and lance's, till the blood gushed out upon the n.

Ps. Iviii, 10. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the venge

ance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Ps. lxxii, 14. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

Ezek. xvi, 6, 9. And when I Job xviii, 13. It shall devour the passed by thee, and saw thee strength of his skin: eren the first-polluted in thine own blood, I said born of death shall devour his strength.

evil.

Lam. ii, 4. My flesh and my Skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

SINEWS.

Job x, 11. Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast icnced me with bones and sinews. Job xxx, 17. My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

Isa. xlviii, 4. Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew.

Ezek. xxxvii, 6. 8. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you. and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and

the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

BLOOD.

Gen. iv, 10. And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy

unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea. I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood. Live. Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

Ezek. xxxviii, 22. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

Zeph. i, 17. And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because

they have sinued against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

Luke xxii. 20. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

Acts xvii. 26. And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the

bounds of their habitation.

Heb. xil, 4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

Rev. xiv, 20. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

OFTEN USED IN CONNECTION
WITH MURDER.
Gen. ix, 6. Whoso sheddeth

man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Lev. xvii, 4. And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

Num. xxxv. 33. So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are for blood it defileth the land; and the II cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, ut by the blood of him that shed it.

Deut. xix. 10. That innocent blood be not shed in thy land. which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

1 Sam. xxv, 26. Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from Coming to shal blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

2 Sam. ii, 29. And afterward when David heard it, he said. I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abuer the son of Ner.

2 Sam. iv. 11. How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from

the earth?

2 Sim. xvi, 7, 8. And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man.

and thou man of Belial: The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LoRo hath delivered the kingdom into the ham of Absa lon thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.

2 Sam. xx. 12. And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man sav that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and casta cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.

Jer. ii, 34. Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

Lam. iv, 13, 14. For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

Ezek. xvi. 38. And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

Ezek. xviii, 13. Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken in crease: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

Ezek. xxii, 3.4, 6. Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast she; and hast defiled thyself

in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come eren unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. Behold, the princes or Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

Matth. xxvii, 6. And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put is the price of blood. them into the treasury, because it

Luke xiii, 1. There were present at that season some that told himn of the Galilæans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

Acts v, 28. Saying. Did not wo straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood

upon us.

Rev. vi, 10. And they cried with a loud voice, saying. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our Llood on them that dwell on the earth.

Rev. xvi, 6. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Rev. xviii. 21. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

INNOCENT CLOOD.
(Sce under Law.)

fire. to devour them. And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulter

flesh and blood hath not revealed

is in heaven.

1 Cor. xv, 50. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.