哥林多前书 12:20

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

但現在肢體雖然很多，身體卻只是一個。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
但 如 今 肢 体 是 多 的 ， 身 子 却 是 一 个 。

Contextual Overview

¹² A person's body is one thing, but it has many parts. Though there are many parts to a body, all those parts make only one body. Christ is like that also. ¹³ Some of us are Jews, and some are Greeks. Some of us are slaves, and some are free. But we were all baptized into one body through one Spirit. And we were all made to share in the one Spirit. ¹⁴ The human body has many parts. ¹⁵ The foot might say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not part of the body." But saying this would not stop the foot from being a part of the body. ¹⁶ The ear might say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not part of the body." But saying this would not stop the ear from being a part of the body. ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, it would not be able to hear. If the whole body were an ear, it would not be able to smell. ¹⁸If each part of the body were the same part, there would be no body. But truly God put all the parts, each one of them, in the body as he wanted them. ²⁰ So then there are many parts, but only one body. ²¹ The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the foot, "I don't need you!" ²² No! Those parts of the body that seem to be the weaker are really necessary.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 36:10 - General Exodus 36:13 - so it became Romans 12:5 - General Ephesians 4:4 - one body

Cross-References

Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through that land as far as the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. The Canaanites were living in the land at that time.

Genesis 12:11
Just before they arrived in Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know you are a very beautiful woman.

Genesis 12:14
When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful.

Genesis 12:15
The Egyptian officers saw her and told the king of Egypt how beautiful she was. They took her to the king's palace, and

Exodus 18:27
So Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro went back to his own home.

Proverbs 21:1
The Lord can control a king's mind as he controls a river; he can direct it as he pleases.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But now are they many members,.... Of different make and shape, in different parts and places, and of different use and service:

yet but one body; all are united together, and make up one complete body, and which without each of them would not be perfect: so there are many members in the body of Christ, the church; some are teachers, others are hearers; some give, and others receive; but all make up but one church, of which Christ is the head; nor can anyone of them be spared; was anyone wanting, even the meanest, there would be a deficiency, and the church would not be the fulness of him that filleth all in all.