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King James Version

1 Corinthians 12:14

For the body is not one member, but many.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
And a person's body has more than one part. It has many parts.
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.
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.
New American Standard Bible
For the body is not one part, but many.
New Century Version
The human body has many parts.
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.
English Standard Version
For the body does not consist of one member but of 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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the bodi is not o membre, but manye.
English Revised Version
For 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.
Amplified Bible
For the [human] body does not consist of one part, but of many [limbs and organs].
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.
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.
Etheridge Translation
For the body also is not one member, but many.
Murdock Translation
For a body also, is not one member, but many.
King James Version (1611)
For 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the body also is not one member, but many.
George Lamsa Translation
The body is not one member, but 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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For 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.
Christian Standard Bible®
Indeed, the body is not one part but many.
Lexham English Bible
For the body is not one member, but many.
Literal Translation
For also 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.
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.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Our bodies have many different parts and God made each part for a specific and grand purpose.
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.

Contextual Overview

12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear shall 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 now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. 19 And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20 But now are they many members, yet but one body. 21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

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
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Genesis 6:2
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 39:7
And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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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