1 Corinthians 12:14

Weymouth New Testament

For the human body does not consist of one part, but of many.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Indeed, the body is not one part but many.

King James Version (1611)
For the body is not one member, but many.

King James Version
For the body is not one member, but many.

English Standard Version
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.

New Century Version
The human body has many parts.

Amplified Bible
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.

Legacy Standard Bible
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.

Contemporary English Version
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.

Darby Translation
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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the body also is not one member, but many.

George Lamsa Translation
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.

Lexham English Bible
For the body is not one member, but many.

Literal Translation
For also the body is not one member, but many.

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.

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.

Etheridge Translation
For the body also is not one member, but many.

Murdock Translation
For a body also, is not one member, but many.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the body is not one member, but many.

English Revised Version
For the body is not one member, but 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,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the bodi is not o membre, but manye.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Our bodies have many different parts and God made each part for a specific and grand purpose.

Contextual Overview

¹² For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with the Church of Christ. ¹³ For, in fact, in one Spirit all of us--whether we are Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free men--were baptized to form but one body; and we were all nourished by that one Spirit. ¹⁴ For the human body does not consist of one part, but of many. ¹⁵ Were the foot to say, "Because I am not a hand I am not a part of the body," that would not make it any the less a part of the body. ¹⁶ Or were the ear to say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," that would not make it any the less a part of the body. ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the nostrils be? ¹⁸ But, as a matter of fact, God has arranged the parts in the body--every one of them--as He has seen fit. ¹⁹ If they were all one part, where would the body be? ²⁰ But, as a matter of fact, there are many parts and but one body. ²¹ It is also impossible for the eye to say to the hand, "I do not need you;" or again for the head to say to the feet, "I do not need 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

Matthew 5:28
But I tell you that whoever looks at a woman and cherishes lustful thoughts has already in his heart become guilty with regard to her.

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.