4For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
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Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. …
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: …
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-21)We may observe here, according to the scheme mentioned in the contents, the apostle’s exhortations, I. Concerning our duty to God, We see what is godliness. 1. It is to surrender ourselves to God, and so to lay a good foundation. We must first give our own selves unto the Lord, 2 Cor. 8:5. This is here pressed as the spring of all duty and obedience, Rom. 12:1 , 2 . Man consists of body and soul,…
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