1 Corinthians 12: 12 - 30
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For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
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| 13
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For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body -- Jews or Greeks, slaves or free -- and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
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| 14
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For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
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| 15
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If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
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| 16
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And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
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| 17
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If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
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| 18
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But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
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| 19
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If all were a single organ, where would the body be?
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| 20
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As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
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| 21
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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."
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| 22
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On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable,
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| 23
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and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we invest with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
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| 24
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which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior part,
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| 25
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that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
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| 26
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If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
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| 27
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Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
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| 28
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And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues.
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| 29
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Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
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| 30
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Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
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