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14 nam et corpus non est unum membrum sed multa
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Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 si dixerit pes quoniam non sum manus non sum de corpore non ideo non est de corpore
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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 et si dixerit auris quia non sum oculus non sum de corpore non ideo non est de corpore
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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 si totum corpus oculus ubi auditus si totum auditus ubi odoratus
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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 nunc autem posuit Deus membra unumquodque eorum in corpore sicut voluit
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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 quod si essent omnia unum membrum ubi corpus
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If they were all one part, where would the body be?
20 nunc autem multa quidem membra unum autem corpus
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As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 non potest dicere oculus manui opera tua non indigeo aut iterum caput pedibus non estis mihi necessarii
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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 sed multo magis quae videntur membra corporis infirmiora esse necessariora sunt
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On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23 et quae putamus ignobiliora membra esse corporis his honorem abundantiorem circumdamus et quae inhonesta sunt nostra abundantiorem honestatem habent
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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 honesta autem nostra nullius egent sed Deus temperavit corpus ei cui deerat abundantiorem tribuendo honorem
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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,
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