Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires. 12 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. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 12:27
Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
1 Corinthians 10:17
Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
Ephesians 4:4
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
Ephesians 4:12
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
Romans 12:4-5
For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,
Ephesians 4:15-16
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
Ephesians 5:23
For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
Ephesians 5:30
because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
Colossians 1:18
He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;
Colossians 2:19
and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.
Colossians 3:15
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
Galatians 3:16
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.
Ephesians 1:23
which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.