1 Corinthians 12:24

But those members that are honourable in us have no need of adornment: but Aloha hath contempered the body, and given the more honour to the member which is inconsiderable;

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

In Context

23and those which we consider contemptible in the body, to these the more we increase the honour; and on those which are of shame we bestow the greater decoration.

25that there should be no divisions in the body, but all the members equally one of the other should have care:

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Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 12:13-27

Union Recommended. ( a. d. 57.) 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. 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. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 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? 16 And if the ear shall say, Because… Read the whole commentary →

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