 | Robert L. Wilken, Angela Russell Christman, Michael J. Hollerich - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 619
...referring to one, "and to your offspring'' which is Christ (Gal 3:29, 16), and in another passage: For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the...body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ (i Cor 12:12) — in the same way the devil's body, of which the devil is the head, that is, the company... | |
 | James L. Weaver - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...many divisions. One of the ways he does this is by likening the Corinthian Church to a body: "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the...body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ" (1 Corinthians 12:12). This was a common metaphor ancient Greek orators used when exhorting the citizens... | |
 | Adolphus Amadi-Azuogu - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...words, different people have different assignments, regardless of gender. Hence, Paul says, "for just as the body is one and has many members, and all the...body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ" (ICor 12,12). All hands must now be on deck to realize this important objective. Even the quarreling... | |
 | Beth Felker Jones - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 168
...body of Christ, as Paul writes of it, is the consummate illustration of difference in unity: "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the...body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ" (i Corinthians 12:12). This unity cannot be one in which difference is annihilated. The peace of God... | |
 | Patrick Swift - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 164
...lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. NUMBERS 6:24—26 Judaism & Christianity 8 just as the body is one and has many members, and all the...body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. i CORINTHIANS 12:12 Christianity nS contending peoples and kindreds of the earth! Set your faces towards... | |
 | Kenneth Berding - عدد الصفحات: 369
...and the same Spirit works all these, distributing to each individually just as he wills. 12For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the...members of the body, though many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body — whether Jews or Greeks,... | |
 | Daphne Clarke - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 134
...regarding the body of Christ. Let's exhort one another and receive our peace by praying for others. "For as the body is one and [has] many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ" (I Corinthians 12: 12). Quite simply, anyone... | |
 | Orlando O. Espín, James B. Nickoloff - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 1566
...interdependence of the members of the church: "just as the body is one and has many members, and all are members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ" (1 Cor 12:12), concluding "Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it" (1 Cor 12:27).... | |
 | Dorothea E. Gaulden - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 96
...capabilities. Yet we see another glimpse of "body" when Paul the Apostle ably tells the Corinthians, "the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also in Christ" (1 Corinthians 12:12). He skillfully uses... | |
 | William Sloane Coffin - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...in the Bible many images of the church, the most famous being St. Paul's "body of Christ": "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the...though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body — Jews or Greeks, slaves or free" — deacons or... | |
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For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 
