believer is necessarily embodied within the body of all believers, which is the body of Christ. Paul does not share Epictetus’s worry about external things affecting us. In fact, Paul believes that many external things should affect us. The plight of fellow believers, for example, should impact us deeply. Believers are bound to the well-being of other believers; they are debtors to one another: “Owe no one anything, except to love each other” (Rom 13:8 ESV; cf. Rom 15:1). If one suffers, all suffer;