Tuesday in Season after Pentecost

1Verse 1. Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech. 2Verse 2. And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3Verse 3. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar. 4Verse 4. “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.” 5Verse 5. Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building. 6Verse 6. And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them. 7Verse 7. Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” 8Verse 8. So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9Verse 9. That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

12Verse 12. The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ. 13Verse 13. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink. 14Verse 14. For the body does not consist of one part, but of many. 15Verse 15. If 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. 16Verse 16. And 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. 17Verse 17. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18Verse 18. But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design. 19Verse 19. If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20Verse 20. As it is, there are many parts, but one body. 21Verse 21. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.” 22Verse 22. On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23Verse 23. and the parts we consider less honorable, we treat with greater honor. And our unpresentable parts are treated with special modesty, 24Verse 24. whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25Verse 25. so that there should be no division in the body, but that its members should have mutual concern for one another. 26Verse 26. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. 27Verse 27. Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.