1 Corinthians 12:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For just as the body is a unity and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form [only] one body, so it is with Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

Christ is just like the human body—a body is a unit and has many parts; and all the parts of the body are one body, even though there are many.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For just as the body is one, and yet has many parts, so all the parts of the body, though they are many, are only one body. So also is Christ.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For as the body is one, and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body, so also is Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:12 Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:17

seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we all partake of the one bread.

1 Corinthians 12:20

But now they are many members, but one body.

1 Corinthians 12:27

Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof.

1 Corinthians 12:7

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal.

Galatians 3:16

Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

Ephesians 1:23

which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Ephesians 4:12

for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

Ephesians 4:4

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

Ephesians 5:23

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

Ephesians 5:30

because we are members of his body.

Colossians 1:18

And he is the head of the body, the church: 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 church;

Colossians 2:19

and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God.

Colossians 3:15

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful.