1 Corinthians 12:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ But as it is, God has placed and arranged the limbs and organs in the body, each [particular one] of them, just as He wished and saw fit and with the best adaptation.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ But as it is, God has placed each one of the parts in the body just like he wanted.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ But instead, God has placed the parts, each one of them, in the body, just as it has pleased him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ But now God hath set the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased him.

1 Corinthians 12:18 Cross References

Psalm 110:3

Your people will offer themselves willingly on the day you lead your forces on the holy mountains. From the womb of the morning, like dew, your youth will come to you.

Psalm 135:6

Whatever the Lord pleases he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.

Isaiah 46:10

declaring the outcome from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, “My purpose shall stand, and I will fulfill my intention,”

Jonah 1:14

Then they cried out to the Lord, “Please, O Lord, we pray, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life. Do not make us guilty of innocent blood, for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.”

Luke 10:21

At that very hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

Luke 12:32

“Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Romans 12:6

We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith;

1 Corinthians 12:11

All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.

1 Corinthians 12:17

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

1 Corinthians 12:19

If all were a single member, where would the body be?

1 Corinthians 12:24

whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member,

1 Corinthians 12:28

And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues.

1 Corinthians 15:38

But God gives it a body as he has chosen and to each kind of seed its own body.

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each.

Ephesians 1:5

He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Ephesians 1:9

he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

Revelation 4:11

“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”