1 Corinthians 12: Spiritual Gifts and One Body

There are varieties of gifts, service, and working, but the same Spirit gives each as he wills for the common good. Like a body with many members, the church needs every part, and God has arranged the members so that none can say it does not need the others.

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According to 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, what unites believers of every background into one body, despite their differences?

All believers belong to the same local congregation in Corinth, and membership there is what makes them one bodyAll believers agree on every secondary question of doctrine, and that shared agreement is what binds them togetherAll believers share the same ethnic ancestry through Abraham, which makes them one family regardless of where they liveAll believers, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, were baptized by one Spirit into one body and given the same Spirit to drink