Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

¹² For as the body is one yet has many members—and all the members of the body, though they be many, are one body—even so is Christ.

¹³ For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body - whether Jews or Greeks, whether slave or free - and have all been made to drink of one Spirit.

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

¹⁵ If the foot would say, ‘Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body’, is it therefore not of the body?

¹⁶ And if the ear would say, ‘Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body’, is it therefore not of the body?

¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where then the hearing? And if the whole were hearing, where then the smelling?

¹⁸ But now, God has placed the members, every one of them in the body, at His own pleasure.

¹⁹ For if they were all one member, where is the body?

²⁰ But indeed, there are now many members, yet one body.

²¹ Now the eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you.’ Nor again the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’

²² Yea, but it is much rather those members of the body which seem to be weaker which are necessary.

²³ And upon those members of the body which we think most dishonorable, we place more honor. And those of us who are indecent are more presentable.

²⁴ For the presentable of us have no need. But God has blended the body together, and has given more honor to that which lacked,

²⁵ lest there should be any division in the body. So that the members should have the same care one for another.

²⁶ Therefore, if one member suffers, all suffer with it. If one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and particular members.