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12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with 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--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and all were made to drink of 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 the body does not consist of one member but of 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 do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part 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 do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part 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 body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
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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 as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
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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 If all were a single organ, where would the body be?
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If they were all one part, where would the body be?
20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
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As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 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 On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable,
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On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23 and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we invest with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with 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 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior part,
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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 may be no discord in the body, but that the members may 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 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
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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 individually members of it.
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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 in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds 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? Do all work miracles?
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Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
30 Do all possess gifts of healing? 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 higher gifts. And I will show you a still 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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