1 Corinthians 12:15

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If the foot says,“Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 9:8-9 : 8 “The trees were determined to go out and choose a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree,‘Be our king!’ 9 But the olive tree said to them,‘I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!’ 10 “So the trees said to the fig tree,‘You come and be our king!’ 11 But the fig tree said to them,‘I am not going to stop producing my sweet figs, my excellent fruit, just to sway above the other trees!’ 12 “So the trees said to the grapevine,‘You come and be our king!’ 13 But the grapevine said to them,‘I am not going to stop producing my wine, which makes gods and men so happy, just to sway above the other trees!’ 14 “So all the trees said to the thornbush,‘You come and be our king!’ 15 The thornbush said to the trees,‘If you really want to choose me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! Otherwise may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’
  • 2 Kgs 14:9 : 9 King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah,“A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon,‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn.

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  • 1 Cor 12:16-27
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    93%

    16And if the ear says,“Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

    17If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?

    18But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.

    19If they were all the same member, where would the body be?

    20So now there are many members, but one body.

    21The eye cannot say to the hand,“I do not need you,” nor in turn can the head say to the foot,“I do not need you.”

    22On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,

    23and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,

    24but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

    25so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have mutual concern for one another.

    26If one member suffers, everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored, all rejoice with it.

    27Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.

  • 1 Cor 12:12-14
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    12Different Members in One Body For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body– though many– are one body, so too is Christ.

    13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.

    14For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

    5so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

  • Eph 5:30
    71%

    30because we are members of his body.

  • Col 2:19
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    19He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

  • Matt 18:8
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    8If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

  • 1 Cor 15:11-12
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    11Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

    12No Resurrection? Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

  • 1 Cor 15:35
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    35The Resurrection Body But someone will say,“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

  • John 13:9
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    9Simon Peter said to him,“Lord, wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!”

  • 1 Cor 10:16-17
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    16Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

    17Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.

  • Heb 12:12-13
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    12Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees,

    13and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.

  • 1 Cor 3:4
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    4For whenever someone says,“I am with Paul,” or“I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human?

  • Matt 5:30
    69%

    30If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.

  • Eph 4:16
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    16From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body builds itself up in love.

  • Lev 21:19
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    19or a man who has had a broken leg or arm,

  • Rom 8:9
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    9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

  • Mark 9:45
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    45If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

  • John 15:4-6
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    4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

    5“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me– and I in him– bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

    6If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.

  • Rom 11:19
    68%

    19Then you will say,“The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

  • Ps 115:7
    68%

    7hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats.

  • 1 Cor 6:19
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    19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

  • 1 Cor 15:37-39
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    68%

    37And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed– perhaps of wheat or something else.

    38But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

    39All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.

  • 1 Cor 1:12
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    12Now I mean this, that each of you is saying,“I am with Paul,” or“I am with Apollos,” or“I am with Cephas,” or“I am with Christ.”

  • 1 Cor 15:16
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    16For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

  • Jas 2:15
    68%

    15If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,

  • 1 Cor 15:44
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    44it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

  • Rom 11:17
    67%

    17Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1Spiritual Gifts With regard to spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.