<p>12:16 <i>And if the ear shall say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body- that would not make it not a part of the body- </i>Clearly there was jockeying for position within the Corinthian church, and some were professing that they had left the body. But declaration that we are not part of the body doesn't make us not part of the body. The principle we can take is that even if there are barriers between us and other believers, barriers which they have placed, distances they have created- they are still part of the body and we still need them. Denominationalism and division over theology are perhaps the most common cause of these distances.</p>