1 Corinthians 12:20

But now the members are many, but the body one.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

But now are they many members, yet but one body.

In Context

19But if all were one member, where would be the body?

21The eye is not able to say to the hand, Thou art not needful to me; nor is the hand able to say to the feet, You are not needful to me.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 12:14For the body also is not one member, but many.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 12:13-27

Union Recommended. ( a. d. 57.) 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. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear shall say, Because… Read the whole commentary →

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