Romans 12:4-5 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:… How comprehensively he surveys the whole range of human action and conduct! He starts from the consideration of men as constituting "many members in one body," and he proceeds to direct them in their various offices. He passes in review the private and public duties to which they might be called — ministering, teaching, exhorting, giving, ruling, and obeying; he depicts the spirit of the Christian in business and in rest, in joy and in sorrow, in hope and in tribulation, towards friends and towards enemies, in peace and in wrath; and he lays down the Christian principles of civil government and obedience. It is a picture of life in its length and breadth, and even in all its lights and shadows, transfigured as the landscape by the sun, under the renovating influence of those spiritual rays of love which illuminated and warmed the apostle's soul. (H. Wace, D.D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:WEB: For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function, |
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