12 | For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. |
13 | For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. |
14 | For the body is not one member, but many. |
15 | If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? |
16 | And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? |
17 | If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? |
18 | But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. |
19 | And if they were all one member, where were the body? |
20 | But now are they many members, yet but one body. |
21 | And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. |
22 | Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: |
23 | And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. |
24 | For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked. |
25 | That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. |
26 | And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. |