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 in one [physical] body we have many parts, and these parts do not all have the same function or special use,

Since there is one bread, we [believers] who are many are [united into] one body; for we all partake of the one bread [which represents the body of Christ].

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form [only] one body, so it is with Christ.

which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills and completes all things in all [believers].

Therefore, rejecting all falsehood [whether lying, defrauding, telling half-truths, spreading rumors, any such as these], speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are all parts of one another [and we are all parts of the body of Christ].

For the husband is head of the wife, as Christ is head of the church, Himself being the Savior of the body.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf. And with my own body I supplement whatever is lacking [on our part] of Christ’s afflictions, on behalf of His body, which is the church.

and not holding fast to the head [of the body, Jesus Christ], from whom the entire body, supplied and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows with the growth [that can come only] from God.