1 Corinthians 12:12-26

NSB(i) 12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many and are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we are Jews or people of the nations, whether we are bond or free; we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot should say: »Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body;« is it therefore not of the body? 16 If the ear should 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 is the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where is the smelling? 18 Has God set the members of the body, every one of them, just as it pleased him? 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be? 20 But now they are many members, yet they are 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 Those members of the body, which seem to be weaker, are necessary. 23 And those members of the body that we think to be less honorable, we offer these more honors. Our less acceptable parts have more abundant acceptability. 24 For our acceptable parts have no need. But God has assembled the body together, having given more abundant honor to the part that was lacking. 25 There should be no division in the body. So the members should have the same care for each other. 26 When one member suffers all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.