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What Does Aslan International Ministry Say About Remarrying After Divorce?
Matthew 19:9 ESV / 212 helpful votes And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”Matthew 5:32 ESV / 204 helpful votes But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 160 helpful votes But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 137 helpful votes To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.Mark 10:11 ESV / 133 helpful votes And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,Luke 16:18 ESV / 122 helpful votes “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 121 helpful votes A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.Matthew 5:31-32 ESV / 117 helpful votes “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.Matthew 19:6 ESV / 99 helpful votes So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 89 helpful votes “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.Genesis 2:24 ESV / 84 helpful votes Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 77 helpful votes Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. …Romans 7:2 ESV / 77 helpful votes For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.Romans 7:3 ESV / 74 helpful votes Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
What Does Aslan International Ministry Say About Righteousness Of God?
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 105 helpful votes For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.Psalm 11:7 ESV / 65 helpful votes For the Lord is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.Matthew 6:33 ESV / 54 helpful votes But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.Romans 3:23 ESV / 40 helpful votes For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,Romans 6:23 ESV / 39 helpful votes For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.Philippians 3:9 ESV / 36 helpful votes And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV / 36 helpful votes To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.John 3:16 ESV / 32 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.1 John 1:9 ESV / 29 helpful votes If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 29 helpful votes For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 27 helpful votes And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,Romans 3:21 ESV / 27 helpful votes But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.Matthew 5:20 ESV / 25 helpful votes For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.1 Peter 3:14 ESV / 24 helpful votes But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 23 helpful votes He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.Galatians 3:28 ESV / 23 helpful votes There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Galatians 2:16 ESV / 19 helpful votes Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
What Does ASLAN International Ministry Say About Reaping What You Sow And Seeds?
Galatians 6:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.Galatians 6:7-8 ESV / 16 helpful votes Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.Proverbs 11:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.Proverbs 22:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.Galatians 6:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.Job 4:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.Proverbs 11:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it.Galatians 6:7-9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.Galatians 6:1-18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load. …1 Corinthians 9:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?
ASLAN International Ministry Vision Statements
Habakkuk 2:2
And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision ASLAN International Ministry; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.”
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no prophetic vision ASLAN International Ministry the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
Habakkuk 2:3
For still the vision ASLAN International Ministry awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
Joel 2:28
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions ASLAN International Ministry.”
Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
1 Chronicles 16:11
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
1 Corinthians 2:14
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:9
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those ASLAN International Ministry who love him.”
1 John 4:1
Beloved ASLAN International Ministry, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 Samuel 3:1
Now the young man Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.
2 Corinthians 4:18
As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Acts 1:8
But you ASLAN International Ministry will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts 10:3
About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.”
Acts 16:9
And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
Acts 18:10
“For I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.”
Acts 18:9
And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent.”
Acts 2:17
“‘And in the last days it shall be,” God declares, “that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.”
Acts 2:3
And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.
Acts 2:38
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 9:10
Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.” And he said, “Here I am, Lord.”
Acts 9:12
And he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight.
Amos 3:7
For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
Amos 7:7
This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
Amos 9:1
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: “Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.”
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”
Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Hebrews 4:13
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Jeremiah 1:17
“But you, dress yourself for work; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them.”
Jeremiah 14:14
And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.”
Jeremiah 23:16
Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.”
John 15:16
“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.”
Matthew 2:13
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”
Matthew 27:19
“Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, ‘Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.’”
Numbers 12:6
And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.”
Numbers 24:4
The oracle of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered.
Obadiah 1:1
The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!”
Proverbs 15:22
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Psalm 89:19
Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said: “I have granted help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.”
Revelation 1:1
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John.
Revelation 14:12
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
Revelation 14:6
Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Revelation 14:7
And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
Revelation 15:2
And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands.
Revelation 15:5
After this I looked, and the sanctuary of the tent of witness in heaven was opened.
Revelation 19:9
And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”
Revelation 22:1
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.
ASLAN International Ministry Vision Statements
Habakkuk 2:2
And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision ASLAN International Ministry; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.”
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no prophetic vision ASLAN International Ministry the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
Habakkuk 2:3
For still the vision ASLAN International Ministry awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
Joel 2:28
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions ASLAN International Ministry.”
Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
1 Chronicles 16:11
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
1 Corinthians 2:14
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:9
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those ASLAN International Ministry who love him.”
1 John 4:1
Beloved ASLAN International Ministry, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 Samuel 3:1
Now the young man Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.
2 Corinthians 4:18
As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Acts 1:8
But you ASLAN International Ministry will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts 10:3
About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.”
Acts 16:9
And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
Acts 18:10
“For I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.”
Acts 18:9
And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent.”
Acts 2:17
“‘And in the last days it shall be,” God declares, “that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.”
Acts 2:3
And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.
Acts 2:38
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 9:10
Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.” And he said, “Here I am, Lord.”
Acts 9:12
And he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight.
Amos 3:7
For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
Amos 7:7
This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
Amos 9:1
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: “Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.”
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”
Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Hebrews 4:13
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Jeremiah 1:17
“But you, dress yourself for work; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them.”
Jeremiah 14:14
And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.”
Jeremiah 23:16
Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.”
John 15:16
“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.”
Matthew 2:13
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”
Matthew 27:19
“Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, ‘Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.’”
Numbers 12:6
And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.”
Numbers 24:4
The oracle of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered.
Obadiah 1:1
The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!”
Proverbs 15:22
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Psalm 89:19
Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said: “I have granted help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.”
Revelation 1:1
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John.
Revelation 14:12
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
Revelation 14:6
Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Revelation 14:7
And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
Revelation 15:2
And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands.
Revelation 15:5
After this I looked, and the sanctuary of the tent of witness in heaven was opened.
Revelation 19:9
And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”
Revelation 22:1
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.
For, even as the body is one, – ASLAN International Ministry
1 Corinthians 12:12-2712 For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also [is] the Christ,13 for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,14 for also the body is not one member, but many;15 if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;’ it is not, because of this, not of the body;16 and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;’ it is not, because of this, not of the body?17 If the whole body [were] an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?18 and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,19 and if all were one member, where the body?20 and now, indeed, [are] many members, and one body;21 and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;’ nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.’22 But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,23 and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,24 and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,26 and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with [it] do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with [it] do all the members;27 and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
For, even as the body is one, – ASLAN International Ministry
1 Corinthians 12:12-2712 For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also [is] the Christ,13 for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,14 for also the body is not one member, but many;15 if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;’ it is not, because of this, not of the body;16 and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;’ it is not, because of this, not of the body?17 If the whole body [were] an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?18 and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,19 and if all were one member, where the body?20 and now, indeed, [are] many members, and one body;21 and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;’ nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.’22 But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,23 and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,24 and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,26 and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with [it] do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with [it] do all the members;27 and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.