1 Corinthians 12:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹And if they were all one member, where were the body?

1 Corinthians 12:19 —

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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. 19)

19. where were the body--which, by its very idea, “hath many members” (1Co 12:12, 14), [Alford].