1Corinthians:12:12-28

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* For just as the body is one and has many parts , and all the parts of the body , being many , are one body , so also is the Christ . * For also by one Spirit we are all immersed into one body , whether Jews or Greeks , whether bondmen or freemen , and we were all made to drink into one Spirit . * For the body also is not one part , but many . * If the foot should say , Because I am not a hand I am not of the body , it is not by this not of the body . * And if the ear should say , Because I am not an eye I am not of the body , it is not by this not of the body . * If the whole body were an eye , where would be the hearing ? If the whole were hearing , where would be the smelling ? * But now God has placed the parts , each one of them , in the body just as he intended . * And if they were all one part , where would be the body ? * But now of course there are many body-parts , but one body . * And the eye cannot say to the hand , I have no need of thee , nor again the head to the feet , I have no need of you . * Instead , much more the parts of the body that seem to be more feeble are necessary . * And those things of the body presumed to be without esteem , we place around these more abundant worth . And our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety , * whereas our presentable parts have no need . Instead , God united the body together , having given more abundant worth to the part that lacks , * so that there would be no schisms in the body , but that the parts would have the same care for each other . * And if one part suffers , all the parts suffer together , or one part is honored , all the parts rejoice together . * Now ye are the body of Christ , and body-parts individually . * And in the church God has placed men who are first apostles , secondly prophets , thirdly teachers , then miracles , then gifts of healings , helps , administrations , kinds of tongues .

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