5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But now are they many members, yet but one body.
For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. …
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
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. …
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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