1 Corinthians 12:12 · WEB
“For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.”
— 1 Corinthians 12:12
Era
Apostolic Era (~50 AD)
Emotion
growing
Type
teaching
Emotional genome
Comfort power
Quotability
Memorability
Crisis relevance
Standalone
body unitychurch metaphor
This verse is part of 1 Corinthians 12. The full chapter reveals the story around it.
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