Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, since all of us share the one bread.
1 Corinthians 12:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body #– #so also is Christ. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, since all of us share the one bread.
A manifestation of the Spirit is given to each person for the common good:
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say ‘and to seeds’, as though referring to many, but referring to one, and to your seed, , who is Christ.
which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ,
There is one body and one Spirit #– #just as you were called to one hope , at your calling #– #
because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Saviour of the body.
He is also 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.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body, that is, the church.
They don’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with growth from God.
And let the peace of Christ, to which you were also called in one body, rule your hearts. And be thankful.