Romans 12:4

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office: so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

These verses touch upon the same view of the body of Christ that Paul outlined in 1 Corinthians 12th chapter, where it is declared that there "is but one body." All Christians are part of the same entity. (See article "Christ Incorporated" under Romans 3:24.) Since Christians are all members of one body and therefore intimately joined in one communion and fellowship with each other, the savage competition for honors and preferments should give place to loving concern on the part of every member for every one of the others. The various gifts, abilities, and "offices," or functions, as distributed among the members of Christ's body should not become the occasion of jealousy, envy, and deprecation on the park of the "have not's," nor should arrogance, pride, conceit, and self-importance mar the attitude of the "have's." To use the analogy that Paul used in 1Corinthians, it would be as logical for the foot to be jealous of the ear, as for Christians to corrupt their love of one another through pride, envy or jealousy.

In Christ ... is a key phrase, as often noted here, in the book of Romans. Those alone who have been "baptized into Christ" are truly in him; and this does not overlook the absolute necessity of faith and repentance also. Can it really be said of any man who will not be baptized, as Christ commanded all people to be - can it truly be said of such a man that he BELIEVES (!) in Christ? Let every man answer that one for himself.