1 Corinthians 12:27

Now ye are the body of Christ, and members for your part.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

In Context

26Therefore if one member suffer, all suffer with it: if one member be had in honour, all the members reioyce with it.

28And God hath ordained some in the Church: as first Apostles, secondly Prophetes, thirdly teachers, then them that doe miracles: after that, the giftes of healing, helpers, gouernours, diuersitie of tongues.

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Cross References

Romans 12:5So we being many are one body in Christ, and euery one, one anothers members.

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

Ephesians 4:12For the repairing of the Saintes, for the woorke of the ministerie, and for the edification of the bodie of Christ,

Ephesians 5:30For we are members of his bodie, of his flesh, and of his bones.

Colossians 1:24Now reioyce I in my suffrings for you, and fulfill the rest of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodies sake, which is the Church,

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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