1 Corinthians 12:12
Modern Translations
New International Version
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.

New Living Translation
The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ.

English Standard Version
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

Berean Study Bible
The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.

New American Standard Bible
For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

NASB 1995
For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

NASB 1977
For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

Amplified Bible
For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form [only] one body, so it is with Christ.

Christian Standard Bible
For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body--so also is Christ.

Contemporary English Version
The body of Christ has many different parts, just as any other body does.

Good News Translation
Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
For example, the body is one unit and yet has many parts. As all the parts form one body, so it is with Christ.

International Standard Version
For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.

NET Bible
For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body--though many--are one body, so too is Christ.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

King James 2000 Bible
For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

New Heart English Bible
For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

World English Bible
For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

American King James Version
For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

American Standard Version
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

A Faithful Version
For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the one body, though many, are one body; so also is Christ.

Darby Bible Translation
For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also [is] the Christ.

English Revised Version
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, which is one, though they be many, yet are but one body: euen so is Christ.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For as the body is one, & hath many members, and all the members of one body, though they be many, yet are but one body: euen so is Christe.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For as the body is one, and hath yet many membres, neuertheles all the membres of the body though they be many, are yet but one body: euen so Christ also.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
For as the body is one and hath many mebres and all the membres of one body though they be many yet are but one body: even so is Christ.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For even as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also [is] the Christ,

Berean Literal Bible
For just as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body being many are one body, so also is Christ.

Young's Literal Translation
For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ,

Smith's Literal Translation
For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, is one body: so also is Christ.

Literal Emphasis Translation
For even as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body being many are one body, so also is Christ.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For as the body is one, and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body, so also is Christ.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For just as the body is one, and yet has many parts, so all the parts of the body, though they are many, are only one body. So also is Christ.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For in like manner, because the body is one and there are many members in it, while all of them are many members, they are one body; thus also is The Messiah.

Lamsa Bible
For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, even though many, are one body, so also is Christ.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

Godbey New Testament
For indeed there is one body, and it has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

Haweis New Testament
For as the body is one, and hath many members, but all the members of that one body, though many, are one body: so also is Christ.

Mace New Testament
For as the body is one, tho' it has many members, and all the members of that one body, tho' many, are one body: so also is the body of Christ.

Weymouth New Testament
For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with the Church of Christ.

Worrell New Testament
For, as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is the Christ;

Worsley New Testament
For as the body is one, and hath many members; but all the parts of this one body, though many, are but one body:
















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