Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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:
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,
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
Images 1 Corinthians 12:12
Prayers for 1 Corinthians 12:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Unity In The Midst Of Diversity
11 But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is. 12 For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ. 13 For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 12:27
Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.
1 Corinthians 10:17
Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.
Ephesians 4:4
There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;
Ephesians 4:12
For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:
Romans 12:4-5
For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,
Ephesians 4:15-16
But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;
Ephesians 5:23
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
Ephesians 5:30
Because we are parts of his body.
Colossians 1:18
And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.
Colossians 1:24
Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;
Colossians 2:19
And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.
Colossians 3:15
And let the peace of Christ be ruling in your hearts, as it was the purpose of God for you to be one body; and give praise to God at all times.
Galatians 3:16
Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.
Ephesians 1:23
Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.