1 Corinthians 12:12-26
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For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. |
13 |
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free-and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. |
14 |
For in fact the body is not one member but many. |
15 |
If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? |
16 |
And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? |
17 |
If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? |
18 |
But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. |
19 |
And if they were all one member, where would the body be? |
20 |
But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. |
21 |
And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." |
22 |
No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. |
23 |
And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, |
24 |
but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, |
25 |
that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. |
26 |
And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. |