1 Corinthians 12:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴For the body is not one member, but many.

1 Corinthians 12:14 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 12:27-28
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. …
1 Corinthians 12:12
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.
Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
1 Corinthians 12:19
And if they were all one member, where were the body?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-26)

The apostle here makes out the truth of what was above asserted, and puts the gifted men among the Corinthians in mind of their duty, by comparing the church of Christ to a human body. I. By telling us that one body may have many members, and that the many members of the same body make but one body (1 Cor. 12:12): As the body is one, and hath many members, and all members of that one body, being m…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. Translate, “For the body also.” The analogy of the body, not consisting exclusively of one, but of many members, illustrates the mutual dependence of the various members in the one body, the Church. The well-known fable of the belly and the other members, spoken by Menenius Agrippa, to the seceding commons [Livy, 2.32], was probably before Paul’s mind, stored as it was with classical literatur…