Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
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,
New American Standard Bible
For even
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
For as the body is one
International Standard Version
For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.
A Conservative Version
For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form [only] one body, so
An Understandable Version
For [just] as the human body is one [unit], made up of many parts, and all the many parts make up a single body, so it is with Christ. [Note: Just as a human body is a single unit, and Christ is a single being, so the members of His body, the church, constitute one body. See verses 27-28].
Anderson New Testament
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 the Christ.
Bible in Basic English
For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.
Common New Testament
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
Daniel Mace New Testament
For as the body is one, tho' it has many members, and all the members of that one body, tho' many, are one body: so also is the body of Christ.
Darby Translation
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.
Goodspeed New Testament
For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, form one body, so it is with Christ.
John Wesley New Testament
For as the body is one, and yet hath many members, but all the members of the body, many as they are, are one body, so is Christ.
Julia Smith Translation
For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, is one body: so also is Christ.
King James 2000
For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For just as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, [although they] are many, are one body, thus also Christ.
Modern King James verseion
For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of one body though they be many, yet are but one body: even so is Christ.
Moffatt New Testament
As the human body is one and has many members, all the members of the body forming one body for all their number, so is it with Christ.
Montgomery New Testament
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.
NET Bible
For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body -- though many -- are one body, so too is Christ.
New Heart English Bible
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.
Noyes New Testament
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
Sawyer New Testament
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;
The Emphasized Bible
For, just as, the body, is one, and yet hath many members, but, all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so, also, the Christ; -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For as the body is one, and hath many members, but all the members of that one body, though many, are one body: so also is Christ.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For just as the human body is one whole, and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many though they are, form but one body, so it is with the Christ;
Webster
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.
Weymouth New Testament
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.
Williams New Testament
For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with Christ.
World English Bible
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.
Worrell New Testament
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 the Christ;
Worsley New Testament
For as the body is one, and hath many members; but all the parts of this one body, though many, are but one body:
Themes
Gentiles/heathen » Gentiles and jews being equal in Christ
Israel/jews » Jews and gentiles being equal in Christ
Selfishness » Inconsistent with communion of saints
Topics
Interlinear
heis
εἷς
heis
Usage: 188
δέ
De
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184
Polus
πολύς πολλός
Polus
Usage: 292
References
Word Count of 36 Translations in 1 Corinthians 12:12
Prayers for 1 Corinthians 12:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Unity In The Midst Of Diversity
11 and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth. 12 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, 13 for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,
Cross References
1 Corinthians 12:27
and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
1 Corinthians 10:17
because one bread, one body, are we the many -- for we all of the one bread do partake.
Ephesians 4:4
one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;
Ephesians 4:12
unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,
Romans 12:4-5
for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,
Ephesians 4:15-16
and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
Ephesians 5:23
because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,
Ephesians 5:30
because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;
Colossians 1:18
And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all things -- himself -- first,
Colossians 1:24
I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,
Colossians 2:19
and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.
Colossians 3:15
and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.
Galatians 3:16
and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'And to thy seed,' which is Christ;
Ephesians 1:23
which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,