1 Corinthians 12:12-26
The Body of Christ

12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ.

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13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

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14 For the body is not one member, but many.

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15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

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16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

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17 If the whole body [were] an eye, where [were] the hearing? If the whole [were] hearing, where [were] the smelling?

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18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

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19 And if they were all one member, where [were] the body?

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20 But now [are they] many members, yet but one body.

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21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

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22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

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23 And those [members] of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness.

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24 For our comely [parts] have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that [part] which lacked:

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25 That there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another.

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26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

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