For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

For though there be those called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

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

Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

For our more respectable parts have no need: but God has arranged the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked: