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Wycliffe Bible

1 Corinthians 12:14

For the bodi is not o membre, but manye.

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.
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

12 For as ther is o body, and hath many membris, and alle the membris of the bodi whanne tho ben manye, ben o bodi, so also Crist. 13 For in o spirit alle we ben baptisid `in to o bodi, ether Jewis, ether hethene, ether seruauntis, ether free; and alle we ben fillid with drink in o spirit. 14 For the bodi is not o membre, but manye. 15 If the foot seith, For Y am not the hoond, Y am not of the bodi; not therfor it is not of the bodi. 16 And if the ere seith, For Y am not the iye, Y am not of the bodi; not therfor it is not of the bodi. 17 If al the bodi is the iye, where is heryng? and if al the bodi is heryng, where is smellyng? 18 But now God hath set membris, and ech of hem in the bodi, as he wolde. 19 That if alle weren o membre, where were the bodi? 20 But now ther ben many membris, but o bodi. 21 And the iye may not seie to the hond, Y haue no nede to thi werkis; or eft the heed to the feet, Ye ben not necessarie to me.

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
Therfore the womman seiy that the tre was good, and swete to ete, and fair to the iyen, and delitable in bi holdyng; and sche took of the fruyt therof, and eet, and yaf to hir hosebande, and he eet.
Genesis 6:2
the sones of God seiyen the douytris of men that thei weren faire, and token wyues to hem of alle whiche thei hadden chose.
Genesis 39:7
And so aftir many daies the ladi castide hir iyen in to Joseph, and seide, Slepe thou with me;
Matthew 5:28
But Y seie to you, that euery man that seeth a womman for to coueite hir, hath now do letcherie bi hir in his herte.

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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