1 Corinthians 12:24

American Standard Version (1901)

whereas our comely [parts] have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that [part] which lacked;

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  • Gen 2:25 : 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
  • Gen 3:11 : 11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

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

    15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.

    16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.

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

    18But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him.

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

    20But now they are many members, but one body.

    21And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

    22Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary:

    23and those [parts] of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness;

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    25that there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another.

    26And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or [one] member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

    27Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof.

  • Rom 12:4-6
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    4For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:

    5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

    6And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of our faith;

  • 12For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

  • 16from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in [due] measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

  • 19and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increasing with the increase of God.

  • 23which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

  • Eph 5:29-30
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    29for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

    30because we are members of his body.

  • 23Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; [but are] not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

  • 15Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.

  • 29that no flesh should glory before God.

  • 38but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

  • 12that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

  • 24Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:

  • 23For the life is more than the food, and the body than the raiment.

  • 10For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.

  • 40God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

  • 12for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

  • 13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

  • 1 Cor 4:6-7
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    6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

    7For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

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    19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

    20for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

  • 7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;

  • 40There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial is another.

  • 24yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

  • 12We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.

  • 21who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, [that it may be] conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.

  • 4that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

  • 3Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;

  • 1Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

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    12For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

    13But we will not glory beyond [our] measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.

  • 12Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

  • 10We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.

  • 31But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.