The Fellowship of the Believers

⁴² They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching^(A) and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread^(B) and to prayer.^(C)

⁴ There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit^(A) distributes them.

Unity and Diversity in the Body

¹² Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body,^(A) so it is with Christ.^(B)

²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ,^(A) and each one of you is a part of it.^(B)

²² And God placed all things under his feet^(A) and appointed him to be head^(B) over everything for the church, ²³ which is his body,^(C) the fullness of him^(D) who fills everything in every way.^(E)

²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands^(A) in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives,^(B) just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her^{(C) 26} to make her holy,^(D) cleansing^[a] her by the washing^(E) with water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself^(F) as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.^{(G) 28} In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives^(H) as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰ for we are members of his body.^(I)