Abundant Bestow Body Cause Clothe Comeliness Deem Esteem Grace Graceful Greater Honor Honorable Honour Honourable Invest Less Members Modesty Presentable Propriety Respect Seem Seemliness Shame Special Treat Treated Uncomely Ungraceful Unpresentable Unseemly Void
12:23 And those [members] of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant {q} honour; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness.
(q) We more carefully cover them.
12:21-26 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee. Every member of the body has its place and is needed by every other member.
12:23 We surround with more abundant honour - By so carefully covering them. More abundant comeliness - By the help of dress.
12:12-26 Christ and his church form one body, as Head and members. Christians become members of this body by baptism. The outward rite is of Divine institution; it is a sign of the new birth, and is called therefore the washing of regeneration, Tit 3:5. But it is by the Spirit, only by the renewing of the Holy Ghost, that we are made members of Christ's body. And by communion with Christ at the Lord's supper, we are strengthened, not by drinking the wine, but by drinking into one Spirit. Each member has its form, place, and use. The meanest makes a part of the body. There must be a distinction of members in the body. So Christ's members have different powers and different places. We should do the duties of our own place, and not murmur, or quarrel with others. All the members of the body are useful and necessary to each other. Nor is there a member of the body of Christ, but may and ought to be useful to fellow-members. As in the natural body of man, the members should be closely united by the strongest bonds of love; the good of the whole should be the object of all. All Christians are dependent one upon another; each is to expect and receive help from the rest. Let us then have more of the spirit of union in our religion.
Abundant Bestow Body Cause Clothe Deem Esteem Grace Graceful Greater Honor Honorable Honour Honourable Invest Less Members Modesty Parts Presentable Propriety Respect Seem Shame Think Treat Treated Uncomely
Abundant Bestow Body Cause Clothe Deem Esteem Grace Graceful Greater Honor Honorable Honour Honourable Invest Less Members Modesty Parts Presentable Propriety Respect Seem Shame Think Treat Treated Uncomely
