14. For the body is not one member, but many.
15. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” not because of this is it not a part of the body.
16. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body, not because of this is it not a part of the body.
17. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
18. But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body just as he wanted.
19. And if they all were one member, where would the body be?
20. But now there are many members, but one body.
21. Now the eye is not able to say to the hand, “I do not have need of you,” or again, the head to the feet, “I do not have need of you.”
22. But by much more the members of the body which are thought to be weaker are necessary,
23. and the parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, these we clothe with more abundant honor, and our unpresentable parts come to have more abundant presentability,
24. but our presentable parts do not have need of this. Yet God composed the body by giving more abundant honor to the part which lacked it,
25. in order that there not be a division in the body, but the members would have the same concern for one another.
26. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; if a member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27. Now you are the body of Christ, and members of it individually,