Study Desk

For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,

so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."

Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.

For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.

If they were all one part, where would the body be?

As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

From now on, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.

This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.

After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.