²⁷ and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

⁵ so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

²³ which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

¹² unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

²⁴ I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

³⁰ because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

¹² For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also `is' the Christ,

²³ because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

¹⁸ And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all `things' -- himself -- first,

¹⁴ for also the body is not one member, but many;

¹⁵ if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body;

¹⁶ and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?

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

¹⁸ and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,

¹⁹ and if all were one member, where the body?

²⁰ and now, indeed, `are' many members, and one body;