1 Corinthians 12:23
and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,
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24 but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,
25 so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have mutual concern for one another.
26 If one member suffers, everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored, all rejoice with it.
27 Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.
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14 For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.
15 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.
16 And 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.
17 If 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?
18 But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.
19 If they were all the same member, where would the body be?
20 So now there are many members, but one body.
21 The 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.”
22 On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,
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4 For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,
5 so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.
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12 Different 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.
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23 For there is more to life than food, and more to the body than clothing.
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23 Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body– a wisdom with no true value– they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.
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23 Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
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30 because we are members of his body.
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15 Do 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!
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12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who take pride in outward appearance and not in what is in the heart.
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21 who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.
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10 For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.
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16 From 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.
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19 He 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.
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10 We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, we are dishonored!
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29 so that no one can boast in his presence.
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12 If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving?But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
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31 But you should be eager for the greater gifts.And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.
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7 You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.
8 For if I boast somewhat more about our authority that the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of doing so.
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