1 CORINTHIANS 12:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.”
If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it — the sympa theia (suffering together) and synchairō (rejoicing together) create an organic solidarity where joy or pain in one member is immediately felt throughout the body; this is not sentimentality but the actual physiology of the mystical body.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 12:26
“And whether one member suffers all the members suffer with it; or one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.” “Yea, with no other view,” says he, “did He make the care He requires common, establishing unity in so great diversity, but that of all events there might be complete communion. Because, if our care for our neighbor be the common safety, it follows also that our glory and our sadness must be common.” Three things therefore he here demands: the not being…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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