18 And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He himslf might have the first place in all things;

24 I now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His Body, which is the church;

29 For which also I labor, struggling according to His operation which operates in me in power.