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For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
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For in fact the body is not one member but many.
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If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?
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And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?
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If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
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But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
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And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
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But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.
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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."
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No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
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And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty,