1 Corinthians 10:17
Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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
18Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
Cross References
Romans 12:5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,
1 Corinthians 10:21You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake 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 Christ.
Galatians 3:26For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:15having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,
Ephesians 4:4There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were 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 →