24For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
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And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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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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