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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In our one body we have a number of members, and the members have not all the same function;

(for many as we are, we are one Bread, one Body, since we all partake of the one Bread).

As the human body is one and has many members, all the members of the body forming one body for all their number, so is it with Christ.

the church which is his Body, filled by him who fills the universe entirely.

Lay aside falsehood, then, let each tell his neighbour the truth, for we are members one of another.

for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ also (though he is the saviour of the Body) is the head of the church;

I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;

instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine.