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I Corinthians 12:2, 14-20, 27 REB
Christ is like a single body with its many limbs and organs, which, many as they are, together make up one body...
A body is not a single organ, but many. Suppose the foot were to say, 'Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' it belongs to the body none the less. Suppose the ear were to say, 'Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,' it still belongs to the body. If the body were all eye, how could it hear? If the body were all ear, how could it smell? But, in fact, God appointed each limb and organ to its own place in the body as he chose. If the whole were a single organ, there would not be a body at all; in fact, however, there are many different organs, but one body...
Now you are Christ's body, and each of you a limb or organ of it.
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