¹² For just ^(A)as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though they are many, are one body, ^(B)so also is Christ. ¹³ For ^[a](C)by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether ^(D)Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to ^(E)drink of one Spirit.

¹⁵ but ^[a]speaking the truth ^(A)in love, ^[b]we are to ^(B)grow up in all aspects into Him who is the ^(C)head, that is, Christ, ¹⁶ from whom ^(D)the whole body, being fitted and held together ^[c]by what every joint supplies, according to the ^[d]proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself ^(E)in love.