For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function,

that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be light.

And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.

make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.

By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith;

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons.

Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is owner of everything,

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;

Each man must remain in that condition in which he was called.

who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you mightily, and you shall prophesy with them and be changed into another man.

“Thus says the Lord God, ‘A disaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming!

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.

For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.

and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.

But my dove, my perfect one, is unique:
She is her mother’s only daughter;
She is the pure child of the one who bore her.
The maidens saw her and called her blessed,
The queens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying,

For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.

If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

For there is no partiality with God.

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!

Yet I will exult in the Lord,
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law?

but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

For there must also be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.