1 Corinthians 10:17
Because the loaf is one, we, the many, are one body, for we are all partakers of the one loaf.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
In Context
Cross References
Romans 12:5so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and members one of another.
1 Corinthians 10:21You can not drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you can not be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
1 Corinthians 12:12For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.
Galatians 3:26for you are all the sons of God, by faith in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 2:15having abolished, in his flesh, the cause of enmity, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might, by himself, form the two into one new man, thus making peace;
Ephesians 4:4There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been called in one hope of your calling;
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 10:16-23
Against Countenancing Idolatry. ( a. d. 57.) 15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. 18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? 19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered… Read the whole commentary →