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 the human body there is a union of many parts, and each part has its own function,

The Bread is one, and we, though many, are one body; for we all partake of that one Bread.

For just as the human body is one whole, and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many though they are, form but one body, so it is with the Christ;

For the Church is Christ's Body, and is filled by him who fills all things everywhere with his presence.

Since, therefore, you have cast off what is false, 'you must every one of you speak the truth to your neighbors.' For we are united to one another like the parts of a body.

For a man is the Head of his wife, as the Christ is the Head of the Church--being indeed himself the Savior of his Body.

Now at last I can rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and in my own person I supplement the afflictions endured by the Christ, for the sake of his Body, the Church;

He fails to maintain union with the Head, to whom it is due that the whole body, nourished and knit together by the contact and Keynesian of every part, grows with a divine growth.