⁴ For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,^(A)

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

¹⁵ Instead, speaking the truth in love,^(A) we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head,^(B) that is, Christ. ¹⁶ From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows^(C) and builds itself up^(D) in love,^(E) as each part does its work.

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) 13} For we were all baptized^(C) by^[a] one Spirit^(D) so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free^(E)—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.^{(F) 14} Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.^(G)

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

⁴ There is one body^(A) and one Spirit,^(B) just as you were called to one hope when you were called^(C);