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Literal Standard Version

1 Corinthians 12:20

And now, indeed, [are] many members, but one body;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Righteous;   Scofield Reference Index - Church;   The Topic Concordance - Body;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Saints, Compared to;   Selfishness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Church;   Gifts of the spirit;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Body;   Body of Christ;   Church, the;   Worship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Holy Ghost;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Body;   Body of Christ;   Church;   Humanity;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Brotherly Love;   Inspiration;   Spiritual Gifts;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Character;   Dependence;   Gifts;   Good;   Unity (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fruit;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Member;   Redeemer;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for January 27;  

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.
Bible in Basic English
But now they are all different parts, 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

12For even as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also [is] the Christ, 13for also in one Spirit we were all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all were made to drink one Spirit, 14for also the body is not one member, but many. 15If the foot may say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it not, because of this, not of the body? 16And if the ear may say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it not, because of this, not of the body? 17If the whole body [were] an eye, where the hearing? If the whole hearing, where the smelling? 18And now, God set the members, each one of them in the body, according as He willed, 19and if all were one member, where [is] the body? 20And now, indeed, [are] many members, but one body;21and an eye is not able to say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; nor 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 passes over into the land, to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh; and the Canaanite [is] then in the land.
Genesis 12:11
and it comes to pass as he has drawn near to enter Egypt, that he says to his wife Sarai, "Now behold, I have known that you [are] a woman of beautiful appearance;
Genesis 12:14
And it comes to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt, that the Egyptians see the woman that she [is] exceedingly beautiful;
Genesis 12:15
and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her to Pharaoh, and the woman is taken [to] Pharaoh's house;
Exodus 18:27
And Moses sends his father-in-law away, and he goes away to his own land.
Proverbs 21:1
The heart of a king [is] streams of waters in the hand of YHWH, || He inclines it wherever 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.


 
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