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12 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.
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Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with 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.
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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 For in fact the body is not one member but many.
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Even so 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 am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?
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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 am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?
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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 be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
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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 now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
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But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.
19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
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If they were all one part, where would the body be?
20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.
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As it is, there are many parts, but 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."
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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 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
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On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
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,
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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 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it,
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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 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
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so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.
26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
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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 members individually.
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Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
28 And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.
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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.
29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
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Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
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Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues ? Do all interpret?
31 But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.
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Now eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I will show you the most excellent way.
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