Romans Chapter 12 verse 4 Holy Bible
For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:
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For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,
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For, as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office;
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For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
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For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,
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for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 4, 5. - For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office; so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. The illustration of the body with its members to set forth the mutual dependence on each other of the several members of the Church with their several gifts and functions, and the importance of all for the well-being of the whole, is further carried out in 1 Corinthians 12:12, seq. In Ephesians 1:22 and Ephesians 4:15, 16, Christ is regarded, somewhat differently, as the exalted Head over the Church which is his body. Here and in 1 Corinthians 12, the head is not thus distinguished from the rest of the body (see 1 Corinthians 12:21); the whole is "one body in Christ," who is the living Person who unites and animates it.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4, 5) In the church there must be a graduation, a hierarchy, a division of labour, every one doing that for which he is best fitted, just as in the body one member has one office assigned to it, and another another. All Christians, viewed collectively, make up one body, the unity of which is supplied by their relation to Christ. Viewed individually, they stand to each other in the same sort of relation as the different limbs and organs of the natural body, as foot and hand, or hand and eye.(4) Members in one body.--This figure of the body and the members is worked out more fully in 1Corinthians 12:12-27.
