Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

¹² For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of a body, though they be many, yet are but one body, even so is Christ. ¹³ For in one Spirit we are all baptized to make one body – whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free – and we have all drunk of one Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many.

¹⁵ If the foot were to say, I am not the hand, therefore I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? ¹⁶ And if the ear said, I am not the eye, therefore I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? ¹⁷ If all the body were an eye, where would the ear be? If all were hearing, where would the smelling be? ¹⁸ But now God has set the members, every one of them, in the body at his own pleasure. ¹⁹ If they were all one member, where would the body be?

²⁰ Now there are many members, and yet but one body. ²¹ And 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 rather, to a great extent those members of the body that seem to be most feeble, are most necessary. ²³ And those members of the body that we think least presentable, we clothe with more respectability, and our unattractive parts with more beauty. ²⁴ For our respectable members do not need it. But God has thus disposed the body, and has given more honour to that part which lacked, ²⁵ lest there should be any schism in the body, but so that the members will care impartially for one another. ²⁶ And if one member suffers, all suffer with him; if one member is had in honour, all members are glad also. ²⁷ You are the body of Christ, and members of one another.