{"id":429,"date":"2008-11-11T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2022-03-28T13:19:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T19:19:51","slug":"romans-124-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Romans 12:4-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span id=\"en-NKJV-28250\" class=\"text Rom-12-4\"><sup class=\"versenum\">4\u00a0<\/sup>For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span id=\"en-NKJV-28251\" class=\"text Rom-12-5\"><sup class=\"versenum\">5\u00a0<\/sup>so we, <i>being<\/i> many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>Paul is talking about unity and harmony \u2014 and diversity of functions<\/h3>\n<h3>function (office) \u2014 not a position but a function. The same word is translated &#8220;deeds&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=366\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Romans 8:13<\/span><\/a>.<\/h3>\n<h3>We are a common body because of our unity <u>in Christ<\/u>.<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2415\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1 Corinthians 12:12<\/span><\/a> \u2014 <em>For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4\u00a0For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5\u00a0so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Paul is talking about unity and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6673,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/6673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}