The Body

Beloved Ones, there is no place in My body for a competitive spirit. It works against the Holy Spirit. Does it bring health and wholeness for the kidney to elevate itself over the lung, or for the mouth to elevate itself over the eye, or for the ear to elevate itself over the heart?
You are not your own. You were bought at a price; therefore glorify God because you have been baptized into one body with many members and just ONE Spirit. The body is not one member but many, and I have set each one of the members in the body just as I please. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the smelling? Is one more important than another? Should one receive greater honor than another? What would happen if the heart decided to elevate itself above the brain? What would be the benefit for the brain to elevate itself above the lung? The body must work together as one; if one member suffers the whole body suffers.
You are the Body of Christ and members individually. Be of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for your own interests, but also for the interests of others. Consider that you are part of something bigger than yourselves. You are each an important part of the whole, but none is greater than another. There should be no vying for position (which creates schisms and divisions), but rather all the members rejoicing together in the honor that comes to the Body through wholeness.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 1 Corinthians 12:12-27; Philippians 2:1-4