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1 Corinthians 12:12 (NIV)

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:13 (NIV)

For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

1 Corinthians 12:14 (NIV)

Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

1 Corinthians 12:18 (NIV)

But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.

1 Corinthians 12:19 (NIV)

If they were all one part, where would the body be?

1 Samuel 12:1 (NIV)

Samuel said to all Israel, “I have listened to everything you said to me and have set a king over you.

1 Samuel 12:10 (NIV)

They cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned; we have forsaken the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtoreths. But now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve you.’

1 Samuel 12:11 (NIV)

Then the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around you, so that you lived in safety.

1 Samuel 12:12 (NIV)

“But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we want a king to rule over us’—even though the Lord your God was your king.

1 Samuel 12:13 (NIV)

Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you asked for; see, the Lord has set a king over you.

1 Samuel 12:14 (NIV)

If you fear the Lord and serve and obey him and do not rebel against his commands, and if both you and the king who reigns over you follow the Lord your God—good!

1 Samuel 12:15 (NIV)

But if you do not obey the Lord , and if you rebel against his commands, his hand will be against you, as it was against your ancestors.

1 Samuel 12:16 (NIV)

“Now then, stand still and see this great thing the Lord is about to do before your eyes!

1 Samuel 12:17 (NIV)

Is it not wheat harvest now? I will call on the Lord to send thunder and rain. And you will realize what an evil thing you did in the eyes of the Lord when you asked for a king.”

1 Samuel 12:18 (NIV)

Then Samuel called on the Lord , and that same day the Lord sent thunder and rain. So all the people stood in awe of the Lord and of Samuel.

1 Samuel 12:19 (NIV)

The people all said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for your servants so that we will not die, for we have added to all our other sins the evil of asking for a king.”

1 Kings 12:1 (NIV)

Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.

The young men who had grown up with him replied, “These people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.’ Now tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

1 Kings 12:11 (NIV)

My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.’ ”

1 Kings 12:12 (NIV)

Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, “Come back to me in three days.”

1 Kings 12:13 (NIV)

The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders,

1 Kings 12:14 (NIV)

he followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”

1 Kings 12:15 (NIV)

So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the Lord , to fulfill the word the Lord had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.

1 Kings 12:16 (NIV)

When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What share do we have in David, what part in Jesse’s son? To your tents, Israel! Look after your own house, David!” So the Israelites went home.

1 Kings 12:17 (NIV)

But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.