Is not one member (ουκ εστιν εν μελος). The point sounds like a truism, but it is the key to the whole problem of church life both…

For the body, etc. The body is made up of many members, which have various offices. So it is in the church. We are to expect the same vari…

For the body is not one member, but many.—Here follows a series of suggestions concerning the different parts of the body claiming indepen…

For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the bo…

Paul now emphasizes the necessity of having diversity in a body for it to operate as one. Each part (such as the eye or the ear) must be willing to…

For the body is not one member
Not only one; nor is anyone member the body, though ever so eminent, as the head or e…

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…