| 12 | For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. |
| 13 | For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body -- Jews or Greeks, slaves or free -- and all were made to drink of one Spirit. |
| 14 | For the body does not consist of one member but of many. |
| 15 | If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. |
| 16 | And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. |
| 17 | If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? |
| 18 | But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose. |
| 19 | If all were a single organ, where would the body be? |
| 20 | As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. |
| 21 | The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." |
| 22 | On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable, |
| 23 | and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we invest with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, |
| 24 | which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior part, |
| 25 | that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. |
| 26 | If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. |
| 27 | Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. |
| 28 | And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues. |
| 29 | Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? |
| 30 | Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? |
| 31 | But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. |