Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God
12 [a]For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, which is one, though they be many, yet are but one body: [b]even so is [c]Christ.
13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into [d]one body, whether we be Jews, or Grecians, whether we be bond, or free, and have been all made to [e]drink into one Spirit.
14 [f]For the body also is not one member, but many.
15 [g]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 [h]If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18 But now hath God disposed the members every one of them in the body at his own pleasure.
19 For if they were all one member, where were the body?
20 But now are there many members, yet but one body.
21 [i]And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor the head again to the feet, I have no need of you.
22 Yea, much rather those members of the body, which seem to be [j]more feeble, are necessary.
23 And upon those members of the body, which we think most unhonest, put we more [k]honesty on: and our uncomely parts have more comeliness on.
24 For our comely parts need it not: but God hath tempered the body together: and hath given the more honor to that part which lacked,
25 Lest there should be any division in the body: but that the members should have the same [l]care one for another.
26 [m]Therefore if one member suffer, all suffer with it: if one member be had in honor, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members for your [n]part.
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