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 we have many parts in one body, but these parts do not all have the same function.

Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, because all of us eat from the same loaf.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.

which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills everything in every way.

Therefore, stripping off falsehood, "let each of us speak the truth to his neighbor," for we belong to one another.

For the husband is the head of his wife as the Messiah is the head of the church. It is he who is the Savior of the body.

Now I am rejoicing while suffering for you as I complete in my flesh whatever remains of the Messiah's sufferings on behalf of his body, which is the church.

He does not hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, which is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God enables it.