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12 ) For as the body is one, and has 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 has God set the members every one of them in the body, as it has 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 you: 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 indecent parts have more abundant loveliness.
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24 ) For our comely parts have no need: but God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.
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25 ) That there should be no division 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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27 ) Now all of you are the body of Christ, and members in particular.