1 Corinthians 12:14
New International Version
Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

New Living Translation
Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part.

English Standard Version
For the body does not consist of one member but of many.

Berean Standard Bible
For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.

Berean Literal Bible
For also the body is not one member, but many.

King James Bible
For the body is not one member, but many.

New King James Version
For in fact the body is not one member but many.

New American Standard Bible
For the body is not one part, but many.

NASB 1995
For the body is not one member, but many.

NASB 1977
For the body is not one member, but many.

Legacy Standard Bible
For also the body is not one member, but many.

Amplified Bible
For the [human] body does not consist of one part, but of many [limbs and organs].

Christian Standard Bible
Indeed, the body is not one part but many.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So the body is not one part but many.

American Standard Version
For the body is not one member, but many.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For also the body is not one member, but many.

Contemporary English Version
Our bodies don't have just one part. They have many parts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the body also is not one member, but many.

English Revised Version
For the body is not one member, but many.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
As you know, the human body is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.

Good News Translation
For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.

International Standard Version
For the body does not consist of only one part, but of many.

Literal Standard Version
for also the body is not one member, but many.

Majority Standard Bible
For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.

New American Bible
Now the body is not a single part, but many.

NET Bible
For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

New Revised Standard Version
Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many.

New Heart English Bible
For the body is not one member, but many.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the body is not one member, but many.

Weymouth New Testament
For the human body does not consist of one part, but of many.

World English Bible
For the body is not one member, but many.

Young's Literal Translation
for also the body is not one member, but many;

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Context
The Body of Christ
13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink. 14For the body does not consist of one part, but of many. 15If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 12:15
If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.

1 Corinthians 12:20
As it is, there are many parts, but one body.


Treasury of Scripture

For the body is not one member, but many.

1 Corinthians 12:12,19,27,28
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…

Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

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1 Corinthians 12
1. Spiritual gifts,
4. are diverse,
7. yet to profit all.
8. And to that end are diversely bestowed;
12. as the members of a natural body tend all to the mutual decency,
22. service,
26. and helpfulness of the same body;
27. so we should do for one another, to make up the body of Christ.














(14) For the body is not one member, but many.--Here follows a series of suggestions as to the different parts of the body claiming independence of the body itself, which the nature of the case shows to be absurd.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

the
τὸ (to)
Article - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

body
σῶμα (sōma)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 4983: Body, flesh; the body of the Church. From sozo; the body, used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively.

does not consist
ἔστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

of one
ἓν (hen)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 1520: One. (including the neuter Hen); a primary numeral; one.

part,
μέλος (melos)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3196: A bodily organ, limb, member. Of uncertain affinity; a limb or part of the body.

but
ἀλλὰ (alla)
Conjunction
Strong's 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.

of many.
πολλά (polla)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 4183: Much, many; often.


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