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1 Corinthians 12:12-26 NIV
12 The body is a unit, though
it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they
form one body. So it is with Christ.
13 For we were all baptized by
one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and
we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
14 Now the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 If the foot should say,
"Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not
for that reason cease to be 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 cease to be 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 arranged
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 combined the members of the
body and has given 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
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