1 Corinthians 12:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

1 Corinthians 12:27 —

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Ephesians 4:12
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Ephesians 5:30
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Colossians 1:24
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
Romans 12:5
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
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.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 27-31)

I. Here the apostle sums up the argument, and applies this similitude to the church of Christ, concerning which observe, 1. The relation wherein Christians stand to Christ and one another. The church, or whole collective body of Christians, in all ages, is his body. Every Christian is a member of his body, and every other Christian stands related to him as a fellow-member (12:27): Now you are the…

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

(vv. 27)

27. members in particular--that is, severally members of it. Each church is in miniature what the whole aggregate of churches is collectively, “the body of Christ” (compare 1Co 3:16): and its individual components are members, every one in his assigned place.