Joie there are so many scriptures that prove that we should not be in competition with each other that I will give only a few to let the others join in. You know it is funny that you posted this because I just came from another board where you and I are members and I put something in a post about where we are to be one in Christ. Romans 12 5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
1Co 10:17 <DIR> For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. 1 Corinthians 12 14For in fact the body is not one member but many. 15If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? 16And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? 17If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
20But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. 21And 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." 22No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 23And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, 24but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, 25that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. There are plenty more on this subject. </DIR> |