⁵ so in Christ we, though many, form one body,^(A) and each member belongs to all the others.

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)

¹⁴ Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.^(A)

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

¹⁸ And he is the head^(A) of the body, the church;^(B) he is the beginning and the firstborn^(C) from among the dead,^(D) so that in everything he might have the supremacy.