1 Corinthians 12:26

Amplified Bible

And if one member suffers, all the parts share the suffering; if one member is honored, all rejoice with it.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
If one part of the body suffers, then all the other parts suffer with it. Or if one part is honored, then all the other parts share its honor.

Revised Standard Version
If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And yf one member suffer all suffer with him: yf one member be had in honoure all members be glad also.

Hebrew Names Version
When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

International Standard Version
If one part suffers, every part suffers with it. If one part is praised, every part rejoices with it.

New American Standard Bible
And if one part of the body suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if a part is honored, all the parts rejoice with it.

New Century Version
If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it. Or if one part of our body is honored, all the other parts share its honor.

Update Bible Version
And whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thus if one member suffers all the members suffer with it; or, if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

English Standard Version
If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

World English Bible
When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And whether one member suffer, all the members might suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members might rejoice with it.

Weymouth's New Testament
And if one part is suffering, every other part suffers with it; or if one part is receiving special honor, every other part shares in the joy.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And if o membre suffrith ony thing, alle membris suffren therwith; ethir if o membre ioieth, alle membris ioien togidere.

English Revised Version
And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or [one] member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

Berean Standard Bible
If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

Contemporary English Version
If one part of our body hurts, we hurt all over. If one part of our body is honored, the whole body will be happy.

American Standard Version
And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Bible in Basic English
And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad.

Complete Jewish Bible
Thus if one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; and if one part is honored, all the parts share its happiness.

Darby Translation
And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with [it]; and if one member be glorified, all the members rejoice with [it].

Etheridge Translation
as that when one member shall be diseased, all may suffer; and if one member be glorified, all the members may be glorified.

Murdock Translation
so that, when one member is in pain, they will all sympathize; and if one member is exalted, all the members will be exalted.

King James Version (1611)
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it: or one member be honoured, all the members reioyce with it.

New Living Translation
If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, and if one part is honored, all the parts are glad.

New Life Bible
If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it. If one part is given special care, the other parts are happy.

New Revised Standard
If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore if one member suffer, all suffer with it: if one member be had in honour, all the members reioyce with it.

George Lamsa Translation
So when one member is in pain, all the members suffer with it; and if one member is honored, all the members will glory with it.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, whether one member, suffereth, all the members, suffer with it, or, a member is glorified, all the members, rejoice together.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with it: or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And yf one member suffer, all suffer with it. If one member be had in honour, all the members reioyce with it.

Good News Translation
If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it; if one part is praised, all the other parts share its happiness.

Christian Standard Bible®
So if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

King James Version
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

Lexham English Bible
And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; if a member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Literal Translation
And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it . If one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it .

Young's Literal Translation
and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with [it] do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with [it] do all the members;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and yf one membre be had in honoure, all the membres are glad with him also.

Mace New Testament (1729)
so that if one member suffer, they all suffer with it: or if one be honoured, they partake of it.

New English Translation
If one member suffers, everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored, all rejoice with it.

New King James Version
And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Simplified Cowboy Version
If one part of the body suffers, then all the others will suffer as well. If one part is honored, then that honor is shared through the entire body.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Legacy Standard Bible
And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Contextual Overview

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. ¹³For by one [Holy] Spirit we were all baptized into one body, [spiritually transformed—united together] whether Jews or Greeks (Gentiles), slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one [Holy] Spirit [since the same Holy Spirit fills each life]. ¹⁴For the [human] body does not consist of one part, but of many [limbs and organs]. ¹⁵If the foot says, "Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," is it not on the contrary still a part of the body? ¹⁶If the ear says, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," is it not on the contrary still a part of the body? ¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole [body] were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? ¹⁸But now [as things really are], God has placed and arranged the parts in the body, each one of them, just as He willed and saw fit [with the best balance of function]. ¹⁹If they all were a single organ, where would [the rest of] the body be? ²⁰But now [as things really are] there are many parts [different limbs and organs], but a single body. ²¹The eye cannot 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

Romans 12:15, 2 Corinthians 11:28, 2 Corinthians 11:29, Galatians 6:2, Hebrews 13:3, 1 Peter 3:8,*Gr.

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:24 - wept Exodus 18:9 - General Joshua 1:15 - then ye shall Ruth 4:14 - the women 1 Samuel 11:4 - lifted up 2 Samuel 15:30 - weeping Esther 4:5 - to know Job 2:11 - to come Job 6:14 - To him Job 16:4 - if your soul Job 19:21 - have pity Job 42:11 - they bemoaned Psalms 35:27 - shout Amos 6:6 - but Luke 1:58 - they Luke 15:24 - they John 13:34 - That ye love Acts 12:5 - prayer was made without ceasing Acts 22:8 - whom 2 Corinthians 2:2 - General 2 Corinthians 7:13 - we were Philippians 2:26 - ye had

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And whether one member suffer,.... Pain; even the meanest, lowest, and most distant, as the foot or hand, toe or finger:

all the members suffer with it; are more or less affected therewith, and bear part of the distress; as is easily discerned, by their different forms and motions on such an occasion: so when anyone member of the mystical body is in affliction, whether inward or outward, of body or mind, the rest are, or should be, affected with it, condole, sympathize, help, and assist; and remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them, as if they themselves were in bonds, and them that suffer adversity, whether spiritual or temporal, as being in the body, not only in the flesh, but as being part of the body, the church; and therefore should weep with them that weep, and bear a part with them in their sorrows. The Jews have a saying f, that

"if one brother dies, all the brethren grieve; and if one of a society dies, תדאג כל ההבורה כולה, "the whole society grieves";''

and also another g,

"that everyone that afflicts himself, עם הציבור, "with the congregations", is worthy to see or enjoy the comfort of the congregation or church;''

or one member be honoured; by being set in the highest place, and employed to the greatest usefulness, or by being most richly and beautifully clothed and adorned:

all the members rejoice with it; as sharing in the honour, Or benefit of it: so if one member of the church of Christ is honoured with an high office, with great gifts, with a large measure of grace, spiritual light, knowledge, and experience, with great discoveries of the love of God, with the presence of Christ, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, or with the good things of this life, and an heart to make use of them for the interest of religion, the other members rejoice at it; for so it becomes the saints to rejoice with them that rejoice, and be glad, both at the temporal and spiritual prosperity of each other: and upon the whole it is clear, that the meanest have no reason to be discouraged, nor the highest and greatest to be proud and elated.

f T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 105. 2. & 106. 1. Vid. Maimon. Hilch. Ebel, c. 13. sect. 12. & Seder Olam Rabba, p. 9. g T. Bab. Taanith. fol. 11. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And whether one member suffer - One member, or part of the body.

All the members suffer with it - This, we all know, is the case with the body. A pain in the foot, the hand, or the head excites deep solicitude. The interest is not confined to the part affected; but we feel that we ourselves are affected, and that our body, as a whole, demands our care. The word “suffer” here refers to disease, or sickness. It is true also that not only we feel an “interest” in the part that is affected, but that disease in any one part tends to diffuse itself through, and to affect the whole frame. If not arrested, it is conveyed by the blood through all the members until life itself is destroyed. It is not by mere interest, then, or sympathy, but it is by the natural connection and the inevitable result that a diseased member tends to affect the whole frame. There is not, indeed, in the church the same “physical” connection and “physical” effect, but the union is really not less close and important, nor is it the less certain that the conduct of one member will affect all. It is implied here also, that we should feel a deep interest in the welfare of all the members of the body of Christ. If one is tempted or afflicted, the other members of the church should feel it, and “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfil his law.” If one is poor, the others should aid him, and supply his needs; if one is persecuted and opposed for righteousness’ sake, the others should sympathize with him, and make common cause with him. In all things pertaining to religion and to their mutual welfare, they should feel that they have a common cause, and regard it as a privilege to aid one another. Nor should a man regard it as any more a burden and hardship to aid a poor or afflicted brother in the church, than it should be deemed a hardship that the head, and the heart, and the hands should sympathize when any other member of the body is diseased.

Or one member be honoured - If applied to the body, this means, if one member or part be regarded and treated with special care; be deemed honorable; or be in a sound, healthy, and vigorous condition. If applied to the church, it means, if one of its members should be favored with extraordinary endowments; or be raised to a station of honor and influence above his brethren.

All the members rejoice with it - That is, in the body, all the other members partake of the benefit and honor. If one member be sound and healthy, the benefit extends to all. If the hands, the feet, the heart, the lungs, the brain be in a healthy condition, the advantage is felt by all the members, and all derive advantage from it. So in the church. If one member is favored with remarkable talent, or is raised to a station of influence, and exerts his influence in the cause of Christ, all the members of the church partake of the benefit. It is for the common good; and all should rejoice in it. This consideration should repress envy at the elevation of others, and should lead all the members of a church to rejoice when God, by his direct agency, or by the arrangements of his providence, confers extraordinary endowments, or gives opportunity for extended usefulness to others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 26. And whether one member suffer — As there is a mutual exertion for the general defence, so there is a mutual sympathy. If the eye, the hand, the foot, c., be injured, the whole man grieves and if by clothing, or any thing else, any particular member or part is adorned, strengthened, or better secured, it gives a general pleasure to the whole man.