1 Corinthians 12:27

Now ye are the body of Messiah, and members in your place.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

26so that, when one member is in pain, they will all sympathize; and if one member is exalted, all the members will be exalted.

28For God hath placed in his church, first, legates; after them, prophets; after them, teachers; after them, workers of miracles; after them, the gifts of healing, and helpers, and leaders, and various kinds of tongues.

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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 12:14For a body also, is not one member, but many.

Ephesians 4:12for perfecting the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of the Messiah;

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

Colossians 1:24And I rejoice in the sufferings which are for your sakes; and, in my flesh, I fill up the deficiency in the afflictions of the Messiah, in behalf of his body, 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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