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 as there are many members in one and the same body, but all the members have not the same office:

for the bread being one, as many as we are, we are one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

For as the body is one, tho' it has many members, and all the members of that one body, tho' many, are one body: so also is the body of Christ.

which is his body, a work compleatly finished in all its parts.

Wherefore leave off the practice of lying, and let every man speak truth to his neighbour: for we are all members of one society.

for the husband presides over his wife, as Christ presides over the church: and he it is that preserves the whole body.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and am filling up the measure of those remaining afflictions, which in my turn I am to suffer in this life, in the cause of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the church:

not adhering to the head, from which all the parts of the body derive its nutrition, and being firmly united together by its joints and ligaments, receives a divine increase.