A warning against being envious of others' gifts, negligent of our own. Is it therefore not of the body?] RV 'it is not therefore not of the body'; it does not on this account cease to belong to it.

17f. If the whole body] Just as the differences of powers and functions are a great advantage to the body, so the existence of different gifts benefits the Church. The position of each individual, his possession of this or that gift, has been ordered by God.

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