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New King James Version

1 Corinthians 12:20

But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Righteous;   Scofield Reference Index - Church;   The Topic Concordance - Body;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Saints, Compared to;   Selfishness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Church;   Gifts of the spirit;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Body;   Body of Christ;   Church, the;   Worship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Holy Ghost;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Body;   Body of Christ;   Church;   Humanity;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Brotherly Love;   Inspiration;   Spiritual Gifts;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Character;   Dependence;   Gifts;   Good;   Unity (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fruit;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Member;   Redeemer;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for January 27;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
So there are many parts, but only 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.
Hebrew Names Version
But now they are many members, but one body.
International Standard Version
So there are many parts, but 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.
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.
English Standard Version
As it is, there are many parts, yet 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.
English Revised Version
But now they 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.
Amplified Bible
But now [as things really are] there are many parts [different limbs and organs], but a single 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.
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.
Etheridge Translation
But now the members are many, but the body one.
Murdock Translation
But now they are many members, yet but one body.
King James Version (1611)
But now are they many members, yet but 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.
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.
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe are there many members, yet but one body.
Good News Translation
As it is, there are many parts but one body.
Christian Standard Bible®
As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
King James Version
But now are they many members, yet 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.
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.
New English Translation
So now there are many members, but one body.
Simplified Cowboy Version
There are many different parts in the church, but only one 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.

Contextual Overview

12 Ephesians 4:1-16">[xr] For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and have all been made to drink into [fn] one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not one member but many. 15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be? 20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. 21 And the 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

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
Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. [fn] And the Canaanites were then in the land.
Genesis 12:11
And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance.
Genesis 12:14
So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.
Genesis 12:15
The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh's house.
Exodus 18:27
Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own land.
Proverbs 21:1
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.

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.


 
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