1 Corinthians 12:12 Parallel Translations

For example, the body is one unit and yet has many parts. As all the parts form one body, so it is with Christ.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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.

ASV:

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

BBE:

For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

DBY:

For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

ERV:

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

WEY:

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.

WBS:

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.

WEB:

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

YLT:

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ,

1 Corinthians 12:12 Cross References

XREF:

Romans 12:4 For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function,

1 Corinthians 10:17 Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.

1 Corinthians 12:27 Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

12:12 {7} For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: {8} so also [is] {m} Christ.
(7) He sets forth his former saying by a similitude taken from the body: this, he says, is manifestly seen in the body, whose members are different, but yet so joined together, that they make but one body.
(8) The applying of the similitude. So must we also think, he says, of the mystical body of Christ: for all we who believe, whether we are Jews or Gentiles, are by one person by the same baptism, joined together with our head, that by that means, there may be framed one body compact of many members. And we have drunk one self same spirit, that is to say, a spiritual feeling, perseverance and motion common to us all out of one cup.
(m) Christ joined together with his Church.

PNT:

12:12 The body is one, and hath many members. The unity of these diverse gifts, all given by the same Spirit, is illustrated by the human body, which has many members and organs with different offices, but all parts of one body. No member could claim that it was not of the body because it is not the eye, the ear, or some other organ. Each is a part, each necessary, each set where God pleased, and all taken together make up the body.
So also [is] Christ. The spiritual body of Christ, the church.

WES:

12:12 So is Christ - That is, the body of Christ, the church.

MHC:

12:12-26 Christ and his church form one body, as Head and members. Christians become members of this body by baptism. The outward rite is of Divine institution; it is a sign of the new birth, and is called therefore the washing of regeneration, Tit 3:5. But it is by the Spirit, only by the renewing of the Holy Ghost, that we are made members of Christ's body. And by communion with Christ at the Lord's supper, we are strengthened, not by drinking the wine, but by drinking into one Spirit. Each member has its form, place, and use. The meanest makes a part of the body. There must be a distinction of members in the body. So Christ's members have different powers and different places. We should do the duties of our own place, and not murmur, or quarrel with others. All the members of the body are useful and necessary to each other. Nor is there a member of the body of Christ, but may and ought to be useful to fellow-members. As in the natural body of man, the members should be closely united by the strongest bonds of love; the good of the whole should be the object of all. All Christians are dependent one upon another; each is to expect and receive help from the rest. Let us then have more of the spirit of union in our religion.

CONC:

Body Christ Church Constitute Form Human Members Though Unit Yet

Body Christ Church Constitute Form Human Members Parts Unit

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