17 If the body were all eye, where would the hearing be? If it were all ear, where would the eyebrow be?
18-21 Every part is beautifully formed to assist and be complementary to the others; none is otiose, negligible or useless,
22 but on the contrary those very parts which are held in least honour often have the most important functions,
23-25 and the visible parts of the body which form its beauty are the most dependent on the organs which are not seen and are less esteemed.
26 If one member suffer, all suffer with it, and no one part of the body can be affected, for good or ill, without all the others feeling it.
27 So is it in that infinite spiritual body of the Christ, which we together constitute, of which we are all members.
28 Whether in the church there be those that are called apostles, prophets, teachers, healers, helpers, officers, speakers with tongues — what is this but the activity of one life?