15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. …
And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-26)The apostle here makes out the truth of what was above asserted, and puts the gifted men among the Corinthians in mind of their duty, by comparing the church of Christ to a human body. I. By telling us that one body may have many members, and that the many members of the same body make but one body (1 Cor. 12:12): As the body is one, and hath many members, and all members of that one body, being m…
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