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1 Corinthians 12:27

New International Reader's Version

You are the body of Christ. Each one of you is a part of it.

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So also we are many persons. But in Christ we are one body. And each part of the body belongs to all the other parts.

We are sending this letter to you, the members of God’s church in Corinth. You have been made holy because you belong to Christ Jesus. God has chosen you to be his holy people. He has done the same for all people everywhere who pray to our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is their Lord and ours.

Just as there is one loaf, so we who are many are one body. We all share the one loaf.

There is one body, but it has many parts. But all its many parts make up one body. It is the same with Christ.

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it. If one part is honored, every part shares in its joy.

Don’t you know that your bodies belong to the body of Christ? Should I take what belongs to Christ and join it to a prostitute? Never!

The church is Christ’s body and is filled by Christ. He fills everything in every way.

He gave all these people so that they might prepare God’s people to serve. Then the body of Christ will be built up.

The husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the church. The church is Christ’s body. He is its Savior.

And he is the head of the body, which is the church. He is the beginning. He is the first to be raised from the dead. That happened so that he would be far above everything.

I am happy because of what I am suffering for you. My suffering joins with and continues the sufferings of Christ. I suffer for his body, which is the church.

They aren’t connected anymore to the head, who is Christ. But the whole body grows from the head. The muscles and tendons hold the body together. And God causes it to grow.




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