1 Corinthians 12:12

Unity and Diversity in the Body

12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:12 in Other Translations

KJV
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.
ESV
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.
NLT
12 The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ.
MSG
12 You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts - limbs, organs, cells - but no matter how many parts you can name, you're still one body. It's exactly the same with Christ.
CSB
12 For 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.

1 Corinthians 12:12 In-Context

10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.
11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

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