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New Century Version
1 Corinthians 12:14
The human body has many parts.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Indeed, the body is not one part but many.
Indeed, the body is not one part but many.
King James Version (1611)
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
King James Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
English Standard Version
For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
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.
For the body is not one part, but many.
Amplified Bible
For the [human] body does not consist of one part, but of many [limbs and organs].
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.
For the body is not one member, but many.
Legacy Standard Bible
For also the body is not one member, but many.
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.
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.
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.
For indeed the body is not one part but many.
Darby Translation
For also the body is not one member but many.
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.
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.
For the body also is not one member, but many.
George Lamsa Translation
The body is not one member, but many.
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.
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.
For the body is not one member, but many.
Literal Translation
For also the body is not one member, but many.
For also the body is not one member, but many.
American Standard Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
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.
For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.
Hebrew Names Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
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.
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.
For the body also is not one member, but many.
Murdock Translation
For a body also, is not one member, but many.
For a body also, is not one member, but many.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
English Revised Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
World English Bible
For the body is not one member, but many.
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,
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.
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.
For the bodi is not o membre, but manye.
Update Bible Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
New English Translation
For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.
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.
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.
Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part.
New Life Bible
The body is not one part, but many parts.
The body is not one part, but many parts.
New Revised Standard
Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many.
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:
For, the body also, is not one member, but many:
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the body also is not one member, but many.
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.
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.
For the body is not one member but many.
Young's Literal Translation
for also the body is not one member, but many;
for also the body is not one member, but many;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the body also is not one membre, but many.
For the body also is not one membre, but many.
Mace New Testament (1729)
the body is not one member, but many.
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.
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.
Our bodies have many different parts and God made each part for a specific and grand purpose.
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
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
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.
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 6:2
When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.
When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.
Genesis 39:7
After some time the wife of Joseph's master began to desire Joseph, and one day she said to him, "Have sexual relations with me."
After some time the wife of Joseph's master began to desire Joseph, and one day she said to him, "Have sexual relations with me."
Matthew 5:28
But I tell you that if anyone looks at a woman and wants to sin sexually with her, in his mind he has already done that sin with the woman.
But I tell you that if anyone looks at a woman and wants to sin sexually with her, in his mind he has already done that sin with the woman.
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.
