CHRISTIAN UNITY Min: As we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Min: Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. Min: But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, Min: To another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills. Min: For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but many. Min: God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. And 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." Min: And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
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