1 Corinthians 12:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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

¹² 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)

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

1 Corinthians 12:20

As it is, there are many members yet one body.

1 Corinthians 12:27

Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

1 Corinthians 12:7

To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

Galatians 3:16

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, “And to offsprings,” as of many, but it says, “And to your offspring,” that is, to one person, who is Christ.

Ephesians 1:23

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Ephesians 4:12

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

Ephesians 4:4

there is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling,

Ephesians 5:23

for the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Ephesians 5:30

because we are members of his body.

Colossians 1:18

He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.

Colossians 1:24

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

Colossians 2:19

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with a growth that is from God.

Colossians 3:15

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.