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Douay-Rheims Bible
1 Corinthians 12:14
For the body also is not one member, but many.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Indeed, the body is not one part but many.
Indeed, the body is not one part but many.
King James Version (1611)
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
King James Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
English Standard Version
For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
New American Standard Bible
For the body is not one part, but many.
For the body is not one part, but many.
New Century Version
The human body has many parts.
The human body has many parts.
Amplified Bible
For the [human] body does not consist of one part, but of many [limbs and organs].
For the [human] body does not consist of one part, but of many [limbs and organs].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
Legacy Standard Bible
For also the body is not one member, but many.
For also the body is not one member, but many.
Berean Standard Bible
For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.
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.
Our bodies don't have just one part. They have many parts.
Complete Jewish Bible
For indeed the body is not one part but many.
For indeed the body is not one part but many.
Darby Translation
For also the body is not one member but many.
For also the body is not one member but many.
Easy-to-Read Version
And a person's body has more than one part. It has many parts.
And a person's body has more than one part. It has many parts.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the body also is not one member, but many.
For the body also is not one member, but many.
George Lamsa Translation
The body is not one member, but many.
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.
For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.
Lexham English Bible
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
Literal Translation
For also the body is not one member, but many.
For also the body is not one member, but many.
American Standard Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
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.
For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.
Hebrew Names Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
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.
For the body does not consist of only one part, but of many.
Etheridge Translation
For the body also is not one member, but many.
For the body also is not one member, but many.
Murdock Translation
For a body also, is not one member, but many.
For a body also, is not one member, but many.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
English Revised Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
World English Bible
For the body is not one member, but many.
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,
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.
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.
For the bodi is not o membre, but manye.
Update Bible Version
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the body is not one member, but many.
For the body is not one member, but many.
New English Translation
For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.
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.
For in fact the body is not one member but many.
New Living Translation
Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part.
Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part.
New Life Bible
The body is not one part, but many parts.
The body is not one part, but many parts.
New Revised Standard
Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many.
Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, the body also, is not one member, but many:
For, the body also, is not one member, but many:
Revised Standard Version
For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
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.
For the body is not one member but many.
Young's Literal Translation
for also the body is not one member, but many;
for also the body is not one member, but many;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the body also is not one membre, but many.
For the body also is not one membre, but many.
Mace New Testament (1729)
the body is not one member, but many.
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.
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.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Our bodies have many different parts and God made each part for a specific and grand purpose.
Our bodies have many different parts and God made each part for a specific and grand purpose.
Contextual Overview
12 For as the body is one and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body: So also is Christ. 13 For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free: and in one Spirit we have all been made to drink. 14 For the body also is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot should 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 should 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 the eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God hath set the members, every one of them, in the body as it hath pleased him. 19 And if they all were one member, where would be the body? 20 But now there are many members indeed, yet one body. 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy help. 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 the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.
And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.
Genesis 6:2
The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.
The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 39:7
And after many days, his mistress cast her eyes on Joseph, and said: Lie with me.
And after many days, his mistress cast her eyes on Joseph, and said: Lie with me.
Matthew 5:28
But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.
But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her 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.
