1 Corinthians 12:12-26 (Epistle)
- 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.
- 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.
- 14
- For in fact the body is not one member but 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?
- 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?
- 17
- If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
- 18
- But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
- 19
- And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
- 20
- But now indeed there are many members, yet 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.”
- 22
- No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
- 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,
- 24
- but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it,
- 25
- that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
- 26
- And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.