“For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.” -Romans 12:4–5
Paul will expound on this idea of the church being a body more thoroughly in his letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 12). But he was not the first to introdu…
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