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The Church or Body is one. There are not two rival communities. The Body, with its many members and complex array of organs of very different position, function, and honour, is yet one. The Church, no matter where it is situated, or in what age of the world it exists — no matter of what race, blood, or colour are its members, or how various the tongues in which its services are presented — is one, and remains so, unaffected by distance or time, or physical, intellectual, and social distinctions. And as in the Body there is only one Spirit, one living principle — no double consciousness, no dualism of intelligence, motive, and action — so the one Spirit of God dwells in the one Church, and there is, therefore, no rivalry of administration, and there are no conflicting claims. And whatever the gifts and graces conferred, whatever variety of aspect they may assume, all possess a delicate self-adaptation to times and circumstances, for they are all from the "one Spirit," having unity of origin and oneness of design and result.

(J. Eadie, D. D.)

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KJV: There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

WEB: There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;