1 Corinthians 12:20

Geneva Bible

But now are there many members, yet 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.

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

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, which is one, though they be many, yet are but one body: euen so is Christ. ¹³ For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we bee Iewes, or Grecians, whether we be bonde, or free, and haue bene all made to drinke into one Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body also is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the foote would say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? ¹⁶ And if the eare would say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? ¹⁸ But nowe hath God disposed the members euery one of them in the bodie at his owne pleasure. ¹⁹ For if they were all one member, where were the body? ²⁰ But now are there many members, yet but one body. ²¹ And the eye cannot say vnto the hand, I haue no neede of thee: nor the head againe to the feete, I haue no neede 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
So Abram passed through the land vnto the place of Shechem, and vnto the plaine of Moreh (and the Canaanite was then in ye land)

Genesis 12:11
And when he drewe neere to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Beholde nowe, I know that thou art a faire woman to looke vpo:

Genesis 12:14
Nowe when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman: for she was very faire.

Genesis 12:15
And the Princes of Pharaoh sawe her, and commended her vnto Pharaoh: so the woman was taken into Pharaohs house:

Exodus 18:27
Afterward Moses let his father in law depart, and he went into his countrey.

Proverbs 21:1
The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the riuers of waters: he turneth it whithersoeuer it pleaseth him.

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.