12. For just as the body is one, and yet has many parts, so all the parts of the body, though they are many, are only one body. So also is Christ.
13. And indeed, in one Spirit, we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether servant or free. And we all drank in the one Spirit.
14. For the body, too, is not one part, but many.
15. If the foot were to say, "Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body," would it then not be of the body?
16. And if the ear were to say, "Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body," would it then not be of the body?
17. If the whole body were the eye, how would it hear? If the whole were hearing, how would it smell?
18. But instead, God has placed the parts, each one of them, in the body, just as it has pleased him.