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One Body with Many Parts

12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ. 13 Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles,[a] some are slaves, and some are free. But we have all been baptized into one body by one Spirit, and we all share the same Spirit.[b]

14 Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:13a Greek some are Greeks.
  2. 12:13b Greek we were all given one Spirit to drink.

Different Members in One Body

12 For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body—though many—are one body, so too is Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves[a] or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 12:13 tn See the note on the word “slave” in 7:21.