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For the body is not one member, but many.
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A Simple, Foundational Truth
Scholars note that this verse states a simple, almost obvious truth. However, they emphasize it is the foundational key to understanding church life. Just as a physical body cannot be only a hand or an eye, the church, by its very nature, must be composed of many different people with various roles to function as a single, healthy body.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For the body, etc. The body is made up of many members, which have various offices. So it is in the church. We are to expect the same vari…
Is not one member (ουκ εστιν εν μελος). The point sounds like a truism, but it is the key to the whole problem of church life both…
19th Century
Anglican
For the body is not one member, but many.—Here follows a series of suggestions concerning the different parts of the body claiming indepen…
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Baptist
For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the bo…
Paul now emphasizes the necessity of having diversity in a body for it to operate as one. Each part (such as the eye or the ear) must be willing to…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the body is not one member Not only one; nor is anyone member the body, though ever so eminent, as the head or e…
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Christ and His church form one body, as Head and members. Christians become members of this body by baptism. The outward rite is of divine institut…
13th Century
Catholic
Having laid out the distinction among spiritual gifts, the Apostle now explains it using the analogy of a natural body. He first presents the analo…
