12. A person has only one body, but it has many parts. Yes, there are many parts, but all those parts are still just one body. Christ is like that too.
13. Some of us are Jews and some of us are not; some of us are slaves and some of us are free. But we were all baptized to become one body through one Spirit. And we were all given the one Spirit.
14. And a person’s body has more than one part. It has many parts.
15. The foot might say, “I am not a hand, so I don’t belong to the body.” But saying this would not stop the foot from being a part of the body.
16. The ear might say, “I am not an eye, so I don’t belong to the body.” But saying this would not make the ear stop being a part of the body.
17. If the whole body were an eye, it would not be able to hear. If the whole body were an ear, it would not be able to smell anything.