1 Corinthians 12:23
Good News Translation
and those parts that we think aren't worth very much are the ones which we treat with greater care; while the parts of the body which don't look very nice are treated with special modesty,

New Revised Standard Version
and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect;

Contemporary English Version
We take special care to dress up some parts of our bodies. We are modest about our personal parts,

New American Bible
and those parts of the body that we consider less honorable we surround with greater honor, and our less presentable parts are treated with greater propriety,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

bestow.

Genesis 3:7,21 And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons. . . .

Context
The Body of Christ
22Yea, much, more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body are more necessary 23And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. 24But our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, giving to that which wanted the more abundant honour.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 12:22
Yea, much, more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body are more necessary

1 Corinthians 12:24
But our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, giving to that which wanted the more abundant honour.

1 Timothy 2:9
In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire:

1 Timothy 2:15
Yet she shall be saved through child bearing; if she continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

1 Corinthians 12:22
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