KJV King James Version
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
VERSE STUDY • KJV
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function,
For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,
For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:
for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
5 So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith;
7 Or ministry, [let us wait] on [our] ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
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