12The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ.


In Context

9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,

10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.

11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines.

12 The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ.

13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free--and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

14 Now the body is not made up of one part but of many.

1st Corinthians 12:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:12For 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:12For 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:12For 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:12For 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:12For 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:12For 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:12For 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:12For, 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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:12For 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.