Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
And you people belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
New American Standard Bible
and
King James Version
And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Holman Bible
and you belong to Christ,
International Standard Version
but you belong to the Messiah, and the Messiah belongs to God.
A Conservative Version
and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
American Standard Version
and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Amplified
and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.
Anderson New Testament
and you are Christ's: and Christ is God s.
Bible in Basic English
And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Common New Testament
and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.
Daniel Mace New Testament
all are yours; and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Darby Translation
and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Godbey New Testament
All things are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Goodspeed New Testament
But you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
John Wesley New Testament
all are yours, And ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Julia Smith Translation
And ye of Christ; and Christ of God.
King James 2000
And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and you [are] Christ's, and Christ [is] God's.
Modern King James verseion
and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Moffatt New Testament
and you belong to Christ, and Christ to God.
Montgomery New Testament
and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
NET Bible
and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
New Heart English Bible
and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Noyes New Testament
and ye are Christs, and Christ is Gods.
Sawyer New Testament
and you Christ's, and Christ God's.
The Emphasized Bible
And, ye, are Christ's, - and, Christ, is, God's.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Twentieth Century New Testament
But you are Christ's and Christ is God's.
Webster
And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Weymouth New Testament
and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
Williams New Testament
Yes, you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
World English Bible
and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Worrell New Testament
and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Worsley New Testament
and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Youngs Literal Translation
and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Themes
Jesus Christ » God the father being the head of jesus Christ
Topics
Interlinear
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Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 Corinthians 3:23
Devotionals containing 1 Corinthians 3:23
References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 3:23
Prayers for 1 Corinthians 3:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Divisiveness And Immaturity
22 including Paul, and Apollos, and Cephas [i.e., Peter], and the world, and life and death, and present and future things. All of these things are yours. [Note: Paul is showing that, as Christians, they really possessed and should value all preachers and circumstances of life alike]. 23 And you people belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 10:7
You people are looking [merely] at the appearance of things [or, "You should look at what is obvious!" In either case, it suggests they were misjudging Paul's ministry]. If any person is confident within himself that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: We are just as much Christ's [servants] as he is.
Galatians 3:29
And if you belong to Christ, then you are [truly] Abraham's seed [i.e., his spiritual descendants] and thereby [you will] inherit what was promised to him [i.e., God's blessings].
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to know that Christ is the [spiritual] head [i.e., authority] over every man; and the man is the [spiritual] head over the woman [Note: The Greek words for "woman" and "wife" are the same. "Wife" is obviously meant by the context]; and God is the head over Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:23
But each one [is raised up] in his own turn: Christ as the firstfruits [See verse 20]; then those who are Christ's [i.e., believers], when He returns.
Matthew 17:5
While he was still talking, suddenly a bright cloud engulfed them. Just then, a voice spoke out of the cloud, saying, "This is my dearly loved Son, who is very pleasing to me; listen to Him."
John 17:9-10
I am praying for them [i.e., the apostles]; I am not praying for the world, but for those whom you gave me, who belong to you.
John 17:18
Just as you have sent me into the world, so I have sent [i.e., will send] them into the world.
John 17:21
[I pray] that all of them may be one, just as you, Father, are [one] in [fellowship with] me, and I [am one] in [fellowship with] you, so that they also may be [one] in [fellowship with] us in order that the world may [see it and] believe that you sent me.
Romans 14:8
For if we live, it is for the Lord's [honor]; or if we die, it is for the Lord's [honor]. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Or, do you not know that your [physical] body is a temple [i.e., sanctuary] for the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourselves,
1 Corinthians 7:22
For the person who was a slave when called by the Lord is [now] the Lord's freed person. In the same way, the person who was free when he was called [by the Lord] is [now] Christ's slave.
1 Corinthians 8:6
yet there is [only] one God to us, [and He is] the Father, from whom all things have come, and for whom we live. And [there is only] one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things have come, and through whom we live.
Galatians 5:24
And those persons who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified [i.e., put out of their lives, Col. 3:4ff] the sinful cravings of the body, along with their passionate desires.
Ephesians 1:10
[He did this] to fulfill His plan at the proper time, by bringing together everything [in the universe] under Christ's headship --- things both in heaven and on earth.
Philippians 2:8-11
He humbled Himself [by] becoming obedient [to God] to the point of death, even death on a cross.