¹⁶ In the same way let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

The Great Commission

¹⁶ So the eleven disciples proceeded to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had designated for them. ¹⁷ And when they^[a] saw him, they worshiped him,^[b] but some doubted. ¹⁸ And Jesus approached and^[c] spoke to them, saying, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Therefore, go^[d] and^[e] make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the age.”

³⁴ “A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another—just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ³⁵ By this everyone will know that you are my disciples—if you have love for one another.”

Unity in the Midst of Diversity

¹² For just as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, although they^[a] are many, are one body, thus also Christ. ¹³ For by^[b] one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free persons, and all were made to drink one Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” not because of this is it not a part of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body, not because of this is it not a part of the body. ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? ¹⁸ But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body just as he wanted. ¹⁹ And if they all were one member, where would the body be? ²⁰ But now there are many members, but one body.

²¹ Now the eye is not able to say to the hand, “I do not have need of you,” or again, the head to the feet, “I do not have need of you.” ²² But by much more the members of the body which are thought to be weaker are necessary, ²³ and the parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, these we clothe with more abundant honor, and our unpresentable parts come to have more abundant presentability, ²⁴ but our presentable parts do not have need of this. Yet God composed the body by giving more abundant honor to the part which lacked it, ²⁵ in order that there not be a division in the body, but the members would have the same concern for one another. ²⁶ And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; if a member^[c] is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and members of it individually^[d], ²⁸ and whom God has appointed in the church: first, apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues. ²⁹ Not all are apostles, are they?^[e] Not all are prophets, are they?^[f] Not all are teachers, are they?^[g] Not all are workers of miracles, are they?^{[h] 30} Not all have gifts of healing, do they?^[i] Not all speak with tongues, do they?^[j] Not all interpret, do they?^[k]