So also is Christ (ουτως κα ο Χριστος). One would naturally expect Paul here to say ουτως κα το σωμα του Χριστου (so also is the b…

For as the body is one. The general sentiment the apostle had been illustrating and enforcing was that all the endowments possessed in the…

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spi…

Paul now illustrates the diversity and unity of the spiritual gifts by the example of the human body. It is made up of many parts, all of them impo…

For as the body is one—He now draws an analogy from the human body, which he also uses in Romans 12:4, but for a different purpose, as I h…

For as the body is one
That is, an human body; for of this the apostle speaks, and takes a simile, and forms a compar…

Christ and His church form one body, as Head and members. Christians become members of this body by baptism. The outward rite is of divine institut…

Having laid out the distinction among spiritual gifts, the Apostle now explains it using the analogy of a natural body. He first presents the analo…