That person is not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut), nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, nourished and held together grows with a growth that is from God.

These are but a shadow of what was to come, but the reality (sōma | σῶμα | nom sg neut) is found in Christ.

In him you also were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, by the putting off of the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut) of flesh, by the circumcision of Christ.

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf, and in my flesh am completing what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ in flesh my for the sake of his body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut), his which is the church,

he has now reconciled in Christ’s physical body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut) physical Christ’s through his death, in order to present you holy, without blemish and beyond reproach in his sight his —

And he is the head of the body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut), the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, in order that he might be preeminent in everything. he preeminent

who will transform our lowly bodies (sōma | σῶμα | acc sg neut) into the likeness of his glorious body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut), by the power that also enables him to subject all things to himself.

It is my earnest expectation and hope that I will in no way be put to shame, but that with complete boldness, now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body (sōmati | σώματι | dat sg neut), whether by life or by death.

since we are members of his body (sōmatos | σώματος | gen sg neut).

In the same way husbands also should love their wives as their own bodies (sōmata | σώματα | acc pl neut). He who loves his wife loves himself,