1 Corinthians 12:20

Green's Literal Translation

But now, indeed, many are the members, 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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But now are there many members, yet but 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.

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 Even as the body is one, and has many members, but all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. ¹³ For also we all were baptized by one Spirit into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, even all were given to drink into one Spirit. ¹⁴ For also the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot says, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, on account of this, is it not of the body? ¹⁶ And if the ear says, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, on account of this, is it not of the body? ¹⁷ If all the body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If all hearing, where the smelling? ¹⁸ But now God set the members, each one of them, in the body, even as He desired. ¹⁹ But if all was one member, where would the body be ? ²⁰ But now, indeed, many are the members, but one body. ²¹ And the eye is not able to say to the hand, I have no need of you; or again the head to the feet, I have no need 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
And Abram passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem, to the Oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

Genesis 12:11
And it happened when he had drawn near to come to Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, Behold, please, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon.

Genesis 12:14
And it happened, when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.

Genesis 12:15
And Pharaoh's princes saw her, and they praised her before Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Exodus 18:27
And Moses sent his father-in-law away, and he went to his own land.

Proverbs 21:1
As streams of waters, the king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah; He turns it wherever He desires.

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.