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1 Corinthians 12:14

Indeed, the body is not one part but many. For the body is not one member, but many. For the body is not one member, but many. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. For the body is not one part, but many. The human body has many parts. For the [human] body does not consist of one part, but of many [limbs and organs]. For the body is not one member, but many. For also the body is not one member, but many. For the body does not consist of one part, but of many. Our bodies don't have just one part. They have many parts. For indeed the body is not one part but many. For also the body is not one member but many. And a person's body has more than one part. It has many parts. For the body also is not one member, but many. The body is not one member, but many. For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts. For the body is not one member, but many. For also the body is not one member, but many. For the body is not one member, but many. For the body is not one part, but a number of parts. For the body is not one member, but many. For the body does not consist of only one part, but of many. For the body also is not one member, but many. For a body also, is not one member, but many. For the body is not one member, but many. For the body is not one member, but many. For the body is not one member, but many. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot should say, For the human body does not consist of one part, but of many. For the bodi is not o membre, but manye. For the body is not one member, but many. For the body is not one member, but many. For in fact the body is not a single member, but many. For in fact the body is not one member but many. Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part. The body is not one part, but many parts. Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. For, the body also, is not one member, but many: For the body also is not one member, but many. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. For the body is not one member but many. for also the body is not one member, but many; for also the body is not one member, but many. For the body also is not one membre, but many. the body is not one member, but many. I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge. It's all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, "I'm not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don't belong to this body," would that make it so? If Ear said, "I'm not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don't deserve a place on the head," would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it. Our bodies have many different parts and God made each part for a specific and grand purpose.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Scofield Reference Index - Churches;   Faith;   The Topic Concordance - Body;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Selfishness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gifts;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Church;   Gifts of the spirit;   Paul;   Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Body;   Body of Christ;   Christians, Names of;   Church, the;   Worship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Holy Ghost;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Tongues, Gift of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baptism of the Holy Spirit;   Body;   Body of Christ;   Church;   Humanity;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Brotherly Love;   Ephesians, Epistle to;   Inspiration;   Prophet;   Spiritual Gifts;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Character;   Dependence;   Ear;   Gifts;   Good;   Soul;   Unity (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fruit;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Corinthians, First Epistle to the;   Member;   Redeemer;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Indeed, the body is not one part but many.
King James Version (1611)
For the body is not one member, but many.
King James Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
English Standard Version
For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
New American Standard Bible
For the body is not one part, but many.
New Century Version
The human body has many parts.
Amplified Bible
For the [human] body does not consist of one part, but of many [limbs and organs].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the body is not one member, but many.
Legacy Standard Bible
For also the body is not one member, but many.
Berean Standard Bible
For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.
Contemporary English Version
Our bodies don't have just one part. They have many parts.
Complete Jewish Bible
For indeed the body is not one part but many.
Darby Translation
For also the body is not one member but many.
Easy-to-Read Version
And a person's body has more than one part. It has many parts.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the body also is not one member, but many.
George Lamsa Translation
The body is not one member, but many.
Good News Translation
For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.
Lexham English Bible
For the body is not one member, but many.
Literal Translation
For also the body is not one member, but many.
American Standard Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
Bible in Basic English
For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.
Hebrew Names Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
International Standard Version
For the body does not consist of only one part, but of many.
Etheridge Translation
For the body also is not one member, but many.
Murdock Translation
For a body also, is not one member, but many.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the body is not one member, but many.
English Revised Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
World English Bible
For the body is not one member, but many.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot should say,
Weymouth's New Testament
For the human body does not consist of one part, but of many.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the bodi is not o membre, but manye.
Update Bible Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the body is not one member, but many.
New English Translation
For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.
New King James Version
For in fact the body is not one member but many.
New Living Translation
Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part.
New Life Bible
The body is not one part, but many parts.
New Revised Standard
Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, the body also, is not one member, but many:
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the body also is not one member, but many.
Revised Standard Version
For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For the body is not one member but many.
Young's Literal Translation
for also the body is not one member, but many;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the body also is not one membre, but many.
Mace New Testament (1729)
the body is not one member, but many.
THE MESSAGE
I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge. It's all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, "I'm not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don't belong to this body," would that make it so? If Ear said, "I'm not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don't deserve a place on the head," would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Our bodies have many different parts and God made each part for a specific and grand purpose.

Contextual Overview

12For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the membrs of that one body, being many, are one bodie: so also is Christ. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 12 For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. 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. 12For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form [only] one body, so it is with Christ. 12 For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. 12For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. 12The body is a unit, though it is comprised of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Corinthians 12:12, 1 Corinthians 12:19, 1 Corinthians 12:27, 1 Corinthians 12:28, Ephesians 4:25

Reciprocal: Numbers 10:31 - instead of eyes 1 Kings 5:6 - that there is not 1 Corinthians 12:29 - all apostles

Cross-References

Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, then she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave it also to her husband with her, and he ate.
Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was beautiful, that its fruit was good to eat, and that it would make her wise. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of the fruit to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise and insightful, she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
Genesis 3:6
So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meate, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) tooke of the fruite thereof, and did eate, & gaue also to her husband with her, and he did eate.
Genesis 3:6
Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, so she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
Genesis 3:6
The woman stared at the fruit. It looked beautiful and tasty. She wanted the wisdom that it would give her, and she ate some of the fruit. Her husband was there with her, so she gave some to him, and he ate it too.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the body is not one member,.... Not only one; nor is anyone member the body, though ever so eminent, as the head or eye: thus the church of Christ is not one person only, or does not consist of one sort of persons; as only of Jews, or only of Gentiles, or only of rich and freemen, or only of men of extraordinary gifts and abilities, or greatly eminent for grace and spiritual knowledge:

but many; members, as the Arabic version adds; as eyes, ears, hands, feet, c. so in the mystical body of Christ, the church, there are many members, some in a higher station, others in a lower some of greater gifts, grace, and usefulness, others of lesser; some Jews, other Gentiles; some bond, others free; yet all one in Christ the head, and all related to each other.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the body ... - The body is made up of many members, which have various offices. So it is in the church. We are to expect the same variety there; and we are not to presume either that all will be alike, or that any member that God has placed there will be useless.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 12:14. For the body is not one member — The mystical body, the Church, as well as the natural body, is composed of many members.


 
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