Ephesians 4:1-10 GNT

One Body with Many Parts

1 Corinthians 12:12-27 Christ is like a single body. which has many parts. it is still one body. even though it is made up of different parts.

In the same way, all of us. whether Jews of Gentiles, whether slaves or free, have been baptized into the one body by the same Spirit, and we have all been given the one Spirit to drink.

For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.

If the foot were to say, "Because I am not a hand, I don't belong to the body," that would not keep it from being a part of the body.

And if the ear were to say "Because I am not an eye, I don't belong to the body," that would not  keep it from being a part of the body.

If the whole body were just and eye, how could it hear? And if it were only an ear, how could it smell?

As it is, however, God put every different part in the body just as he wanted it to be.

There would not be a body if it were all only one part!

As it is, there are many parts but one body.

So then, the cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" Nor can the head say to the feet. "Well I don't need you!"

On contrary, we cannot do without the parts of the body that seam to be weaker;

and those parts that we think aren't worth very much are the ones which we treat with greater care; while the parts of the body which don't look very nice are treated with special modesty,

which the more beautiful parts do not need, God himself has put the body together in such a way as to give greater honor to those parts that need it.

And so there is no division in the body, but all its different parts have the same concern for one another.

If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it; if one part is praised all the other parts share it happiness.

All of you are Christ's body, and each one is a part of it.

Divisions in the Church

1 Corinthians 1:10-11 By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ I  appeal to all of you, my friends, to agree in what you say, so that there will be no divisions among you. Be completely united, with only one thought and one purpose.

For some people from Chole's family have told me quite plainly, my friends, that there are quarrels among you.

False Teachers

Jude Verses 3-5 My dear friends, I was doing my best to write to you about the salvation we share in common, when I felt the need of writing at once to encourage you to fight on for the faith which once and for all God has given to his people.

For some godless people have slipped in unnoticed among us, persons who distort the message about the grace of our God in order to excuse their immoral ways, and who reject Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord. Long ago the Scriptures predicted the condemnation they have received.

For even though you know all this, I want to remind you to know the Lord once rescued the people of Israel from Egypt, but afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

Malachi 2:8-10 "But now you priests have turned away from the right path, Your teaching has led many to do wrong, You have broken the covenant I made with you.

So I, in turn. will make the people of Israel despise you because you do not obey my will, and when you teach my people, you do not treat everyone alike."

The People's Unfaithfulness to God

Don't we all have the same father? Didn't the same God create us all? Then why do we break our promises to one another, and why do we despise the covenant that God made with our ancestors.?