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 body we have many members, but all the members do not have the same function,

Because [there is] one bread, [we] who [are] many are one body, for [we] all share from the one bread.

For just as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, [although they] are many, are one body, thus also Christ.

which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all [things] in every [way].

Therefore, putting aside the lie, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

because [the] husband is [the] head of the wife, as also Christ [is the] head of the church (he himself [being the] Savior of the body).

Now I rejoice in my sufferings on behalf of you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ, on behalf of his body which is the church,

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by the ligaments and sinews, grows with the growth of God.