Bible verses about "inclusion" | Moffatt

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. ¹⁶ Keep in harmony with one another; instead of being ambitious, associate with humble folk; never be self-conceited. ¹⁷ Never pay back evil for evil to anyone; aim to be above reproach in the eyes of all; ¹⁸ be at peace with all men, if possible, so far as that depends on you.

¹² As the human body is one and has many members, all the members of the body forming one body for all their number, so is it with Christ. ¹³ For by one Spirit we have all been baptized into one Body, Jews or Greeks, slaves or freemen; we have all been imbued with one Spirit. ¹⁴ Why, even the body consists not of one member but of many. ¹⁵ If the foot were to say, 'Because I am not the hand, I do not belong to the body,' that does not make it no part of the body. ¹⁶ If the ear were to say, 'Because I am not the eye, I do not belong to the body,' that does not make it no part of the body. ¹⁷ If the body were all eye, where would hearing be? If the body were all ear, where would smell be? ¹⁸ As it is, God has set the members in the body, each as it pleased him. ¹⁹ If they all made up one member, what would become of the body? ²⁰ As it is, there are many members and one body. ²¹ The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I have no need of you,' nor again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you.' ²² Quite the contrary. We cannot do without those very members of the body which are considered rather delicate, ²³ just as the parts we consider rather dishonourable are the very parts we invest with special honour; our indecorous parts get a special care and attention ²⁴ which does not need to be paid to our more decorous parts. Yes, God has tempered the body together, with a special dignity for the inferior parts, ²⁵ so that there may be no disunion in the body, but that the various members should have a common concern for one another. ²⁶ Thus if one member suffers, all the members share its suffering; if one member is honoured, all the members share its honour. ²⁷ Now you are Christ's Body, and severally members of it.

²⁸ There is no room for Jew or Greek, there is no room for slave or freeman, there is no room for male and female; you are all one in Christ Jesus.