{Tempered the body together} (sunekerasen to s(936d)a). First
aorist active indicative of sunkerannumi, to mix together, old
word, but in N.T. only here and  Heb 4:2 . Plato used this very
word of the way God compounded (sunekerasato) the various
elements of the body in creating soul and body. Paul rejects the
idea of the later Gnostics that matter is evil and the physical
organs degrading. He gives a noble picture of the body with its
wonderful organs planned to be the temple of God's Spirit
( 6:19 ) in opposition to the Epicurean sensualists in Corinth.
{To that part which lacked} (	(9369) husteroumen(9369)). It is a true
instinct that gives superior honour to the unseen organs of life.