Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

¹² For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also [is] the Christ.

¹³ For also in [the power of] one Spirit *we* have all been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit.

¹⁴ For also the body is not one member but many.

¹⁵ If the foot say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

¹⁶ And if the ear say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

¹⁷ If the whole body [were] an eye, where the hearing? if all hearing, where the smelling?

¹⁸ But now God has set the members, each one of them in the body, according as it has pleased [him].

¹⁹ But if all were one member, where the body?

²⁰ But now the members [are] many, and the body one.

²¹ The eye cannot say to the hand, I have not need of thee; or again, the head to the feet, I have not need of you.

²² But much rather, the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

²³ and those [parts] of the body which we esteem to be the more void of honour, these we clothe with more abundant honour; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness;

²⁴ but our comely [parts] have not need. But God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to [the part] that lacked;

²⁵ that there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have the same concern one for another.

²⁶ And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with [it]; and if one member be glorified, all the members rejoice with [it].

²⁷ Now *ye* are Christ's body, and members in particular.