24 For our comely parts need it not: but God hath tempered the body together: and hath given the more honor to that part which lacked,

25 Lest there should be any division in the body: but that the members should have the same [a]care one for another.

26 [b]Therefore if one member suffer, all suffer with it: if one member be had in honor, all the members rejoice with it.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 12:25 Should bestow their operations and offices to the profit and preservation of the whole body.
  2. 1 Corinthians 12:26 Now he applieth the same doctrine to the Corinthians without any allegory, warning them that seeing there are divers functions and divers gifts, it is their duty, not to offend one against another, either by envy or ambition, but rather that they being joined together in love and charity one with another, every one of them bestow to the profit of all, that which he hath received, according as his ministry doth require.

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