26And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
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Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
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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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