⁴ For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

⁴ Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

⁵ So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

²⁷ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

¹² For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: