²⁷ Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof.

⁵ so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

²³ which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

¹² for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

³⁰ because we are members of his body.

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, `being' himself the saviour of the body.

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many.

¹⁵ If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.

¹⁶ And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.

¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

¹⁸ But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him.

¹⁹ And if they were all one member, where were the body?

²⁰ But now they are many members, but one body.