12 For just (A)as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though they are many, are one body, (B)so also is Christ. 13 For [a](C)by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether (D)Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to (E)drink of one Spirit.

14 For (F)the body is not one part, but many.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 12:13 Or in

Unity and Diversity in the Body

12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body,(A) so it is with Christ.(B) 13 For we were all baptized(C) by[a] one Spirit(D) so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free(E)—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.(F) 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.(G)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 12:13 Or with; or in

There is (A)one body and one Spirit, just as you also were called in one (B)hope of your calling;

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There is one body(A) and one Spirit,(B) just as you were called to one hope when you were called(C);

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16 from whom (A)the whole body, being fitted and held together [a]by what every joint supplies, according to the [b]proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself (B)in love.

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  1. Ephesians 4:16 Lit through every joint of the supply
  2. Ephesians 4:16 Lit working in measure

16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows(A) and builds itself up(B) in love,(C) as each part does its work.

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