For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,
Parallel translations
- KJV For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
- BSB Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function,
- NKJV For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,
- NASB For just as we have many parts in one body and all the body’s parts do not have the same function,
- NLT Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function,
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Cross-references · 5
- 1 Cor 12:27Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
- 1 Cor 12:12–14For 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 4:15–16but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
- 1 Cor 12:4Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
- Eph 4:4There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
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