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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As we have many members in one body, and all members have not one office:

Because that we - though we be many - yet are one bread, and one body inasmuch as we all are partakers of one bread.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of one body though they be many, yet are but one body: even so is Christ.

which is his body, and fullness of him, that filleth all in all things.

Wherefore, put away lying, and speak every man truth unto his neighbor, forasmuch as we are members one of another.

For the husband is the wife's head, even as Christ is the head of the congregation, and the same is the saviour of the body.

Now joy I in my sufferings which I suffer, for you; and fulfill that which is behind of the passions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the congregation -

and holdeth not the head: whereof all the body by joints and couples receiveth nourishment, and is knit together, and increaseth with the increasing that cometh of God.