1 Corinthians 10:17
As therefore that bread is one, so we are all one body; for we all take to ourselves from that one bread.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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 also we, who are collectively many persons, are one body in Messiah, and are naturally members of each other.
1 Corinthians 10:21Ye cannot drink the cup of our Lord, and the cup of demons; and ye cannot be partakers at the table of our Lord, and at the table of demons.
1 Corinthians 12:12For as the body is one, and in it are many members; and all those members of the body, though many, are one body; so also is the Messiah.
Galatians 3:26For ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jesus the Messiah.
Ephesians 2:15and by his prescriptions he hath abolished the law of ordinances; that, in himself, he might make the two to be one new man; and he hath made peace,
Ephesians 4:4so that ye may become one body, and one Spirit; even as ye are called unto 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 →