Lesson: Love for the Church
Reading: The church as a body
Reference: 1 Cor. 12:12-18, 25-27

I Corinthians 12:12: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

I Corinthians 12:13: For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

I Corinthians 12:14: For the body is not one member, but many.

I Corinthians 12:15: If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

I Corinthians 12:16: And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

I Corinthians 12:17: If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

I Corinthians 12:18: But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

I Corinthians 12:25: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

I Corinthians 12:26: And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

I Corinthians 12:27: Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

(KJV)