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¹²For 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. ¹³For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body— Jews or Greeks, slaves^[d] or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. ¹⁴For the body does not consist of one member but of many. ¹⁵If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. ¹⁶And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. ¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? ¹⁸But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. ¹⁹If all were a single member, where would the body be? ²⁰As it is, there are many parts,^[e] yet one body. ²¹The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." ²²On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, ²³and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, ²⁴which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, ²⁵that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.²⁶If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.                             

                                                                                                                                     1Corinthians 12:12-26                                                                                                           

        "In the body of Christ you may be a dancing leg or a designing arm or a singing mouth, while I aim to be an analytical eye. We belong together in one body, and if I love you, as a part of the same body, I will not presume to dance or paint or sing. My best love-gift to the rest of the body will be to bring an analytical and systematic perspective to our understanding of the arts. This perspective will, I hope, at the very least help us avoid unbiblical problems and false dilemmas. But, much more, I hope it will help develop in us a mature wisdom so that we can discern what we, at this point of history to which God has called us, should be doing in the arts. For if we are going to prevail as sheep among wolves, then we need a cultural programme which is, as Jesus recommended (Matt. 10:16), as unsophisticated as the dove and as wary as the snake in the grass."                   ~Calvin Seerveld, in: Bearing Fresh Olive Leaves