- Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
- 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.
- Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.
- If they were all one part, where would the body be?
- As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
- 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!"
- On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
- 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,
- while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it,
- so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.
- If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
- Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
