1 Corinthians 12:12
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.

New Revised 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.

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

New American Bible
As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ.

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

as.

1 Corinthians 10:17 For we, being many, are one bread, one body: all that partake of one bread.

Romans 12:4,5 For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office: . . .

Ephesians 1:23 Which is his body and the fulness of him who is filled all in all.

Ephesians 4:4,12,15,16 One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your calling. . . .

Ephesians 5:23,30 Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body. . . .

Colossians 1:18,24 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the primacy: . . .

Colossians 2:19 And not holding the head, from which the whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth into the increase of God.

Colossians 3:15 And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body: and be ye thankful.

so.

1 Corinthians 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ and members of member.

Galatians 3:16 To Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He saith not: And to his seeds as of many. But as of one: And to thy seed, which is Christ.

Context
The Body of Christ
11But all these things, one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will. 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. 13For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free: and in one Spirit we have all been made to drink.…
Cross References
Romans 12:4
For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office:

1 Corinthians 10:17
For we, being many, are one bread, one body: all that partake of one bread.

1 Corinthians 12:7
And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit.

1 Corinthians 12:20
But now there are many members indeed, yet one body.

1 Corinthians 12:27
Now you are the body of Christ and members of member.

1 Corinthians 12:11
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