1 Corinthians 12:20

Bible in Basic English

But now they are all different parts, but one body.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

King James Version (1611)
But now are they many members, yet but one body.

King James Version
But now are they many members, yet but one body.

English Standard Version
As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.

New American Standard Bible
But now there are many parts, but one body.

New Century Version
So then there are many parts, but only one body.

Amplified Bible
But now [as things really are] there are many parts [different limbs and organs], but a single body.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But now there are many members, but one body.

Legacy Standard Bible
But now there are many members, but one body.

Berean Standard Bible
As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

Contemporary English Version
It takes many parts to make a single body.

Complete Jewish Bible
But as it is, there are indeed many parts, yet just one body.

Darby Translation
But now the members [are] many, and the body one.

Easy-to-Read Version
So there are many parts, but only one body.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But now are there many members, yet but one body.

George Lamsa Translation
But now they are many members, yet but one body.

Good News Translation
As it is, there are many parts but one body.

Lexham English Bible
But now there are many members, but one body.

Literal Translation
But now, indeed, many are the members, but one body.

American Standard Version
But now they are many members, but one body.

Hebrew Names Version
But now they are many members, but one body.

International Standard Version
So there are many parts, but one body.

Etheridge Translation
But now the members are many, but the body one.

Murdock Translation
But now they are many members, yet but one body.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe are there many members, yet but one body.

English Revised Version
But now they are many members, but one body.

World English Bible
But now they are many members, but one body.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Whereas now there are indeed many members, yet but one body.

Weymouth's New Testament
But, as a matter of fact, there are many parts and but one body.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But now ther ben many membris, but o bodi.

Update Bible Version
But now there are many members, but one body.

Webster's Bible Translation
But now [are they] many members, yet but one body.

New English Translation
So now there are many members, but one body.

New King James Version
But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.

New Living Translation
Yes, there are many parts, but only one body.

New Life Bible
But now there are many parts, but one body.

New Revised Standard
As it is, there are many members, yet one body.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, however there are many members, yet one body;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But now there are many members indeed, yet one body.

Revised Standard Version
As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Now are ther many membres yet but one body.

Young's Literal Translation
and now, indeed, [are] many members, and one body;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But now are the membres many, yet is the body but one.

Mace New Testament (1729)
thus, tho' there are many members, yet there is but one body.

Simplified Cowboy Version
There are many different parts in the church, but only one body.

Contextual Overview

¹² For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ. ¹³ For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body is not one part, but a number of parts. ¹⁵ If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same. ¹⁷ If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling? ¹⁸ But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him. ¹⁹ And if they were all one part, where would the body be? ²⁰ But now they are all different parts, but one body. ²¹ And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

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
And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.

Genesis 12:11
Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;

Genesis 12:14
And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.

Genesis 12:15
And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Exodus 18:27
And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land.

Proverbs 21:1
The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.

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.