12 Just as a body, though one, has
many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
13 For we were all baptized by one
Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we
were all given the one Spirit to drink.
14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 Now if the foot should say,
“Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that
reason stop being part of the body.
16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the
body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where
would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the
sense of smell be?
18 But in fact God
has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to
be.
19 If they were all one part,
where would the body be?
20 As it is,
there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand,
“I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”
22 On the contrary, those parts of the
body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat
with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with
special modesty,
24 while our
presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together,
giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it,
25 so that there should be no division in the body, but
that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one
part is honored, every part rejoices with it.27 Now you are the body of Christ,
and each one of you is a part of it.
28 And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues.
28 And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues.
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