Romans 12:5

so also we, who are collectively many persons, are one body in Messiah, and are naturally members of each other.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

In Context

4For as we severally have many members in one body, and all those members have not the same functions;

6But we have different gifts, according to the grace given to us. There is that of prophecy, according to the measure of his faith.

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Cross References

Romans 12:4For as we severally have many members in one body, and all those members have not the same functions;

1 Corinthians 10:33even as I also, in every thing, please every man; and do not seek what is profitable to me, but what is profitable to many; that they may live.

1 Corinthians 12:20But now they are many members, yet but one body.

Ephesians 1:23which is his body, and the fullness of him who filleth all in all:

Ephesians 5:23Because the husband is the head of the wife, even as the Messiah is the head of the church; and he is the vivifier of the body.

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 Romans 12:2-21

Consecration to God; Duty towards God; Duty towards Ourselves; Due Exercise of Spiritual Gifts; Duty towards Our Brethren; Brotherly Love; Love to Enemies. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 3 For I say,… Read the whole commentary →

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