For the body is not one member, but many.
Parallel translations
- KJV For the body is not one member, but many.
- BSB For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.
- NKJV For in fact the body is not one member but many.
- NASB For the body is not one part, but many.
- NLT Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- 1 Cor 12:27–28Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
- 1 Cor 12:12For 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.
- Eph 4:25Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
- 1 Cor 12:19If they were all one member, where would the body be?
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