Romans 12:5

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Romans 12:5

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

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For just as we have many parts united in our physical bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,

Because there is only one loaf, so we, though many, are only one body, for we all partake of one loaf.

For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with Christ.

which is His body, that is being filled by Him who fills everything everywhere.

So you must lay aside falsehood and each of you practice telling the truth to his neighbor, for we are parts of one another.

for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the Head of the church, His body, and Saviour of it.

I am now glad to be suffering for you, and in my own person I am filling in what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for His body, that is, the church.

Such a person is not continuing in connection with the Head, from which the whole body, when supplied and united through its joints and sinews, grows with a growth that God produces.