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1 Corinthians 12:27 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 12 · verse 27
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.1 Corinthians 12:27 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 12:27 in context
25That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
26And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
27Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
28And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
29Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
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- particularmerosa part, a part due or assigned to one, lot, destiny, one of the constituent parts of a…G3313 →
- membersmelosa member, limb a member of the human body, of bodies given up to criminal intercourse…G3196 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- bodysōmathe body both of men or animals, a dead body or corpse, the living body, of animals, the…G4983 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 27-31