1 Corinthians 10:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι εἷς ἄρτος, ἓν σῶμα οἱ πολλοί ἐσμεν: οἱ γὰρ πάντες ἐκ τοῦ ἑνὸς ἄρτου μετέχομεν.

Transliteration

For one artos, one sōma the many esmen: for all from the one artou metechomen

Grammar Details

• *artos*: nominative, masculine, singular - bread/loaf
• *sōma*: nominative, neuter, singular - body
• *esmen*: present indicative, 1st person plural - we are
• *artou*: genitive, masculine, singular - bread/loaf
• *metechomen*: present indicative, 1st person plural - we partake/share

Word Meanings

• *artos*: bread/loaf
• *sōma*: body/physical entity
• *metechomen*: partake/share/participate in

Referenced Verses

• Rom 12:5 : 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and {G2596} severally members one of another.
• Col 3:15 : 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful.
• 1 Cor 12:12 : 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
• 1 Cor 12:27 : 27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and {G1537} severally members thereof.
• Gal 3:26-28 : 26 For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ. 28 There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one [man] in Christ Jesus.
• Eph 1:22-23 : 22 and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
• Eph 2:15-16 : 15 having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, [so] making peace; 16 and {G846} might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
• Eph 3:6 : 6 [None to wit], that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,
• Eph 4:4 : 4 [ There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;
• Eph 4:12-13 : 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ: 13 till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
• Eph 4:16 : 16 from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in [due] measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.
• Eph 4:25 : 25 Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
• Col 2:19 : 19 and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increasing with the increase of God.
• Col 3:11 : 11 where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
• 1 Cor 10:3-4 : 3 and did all eat the same spiritual food; 4 and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.
• 1 Cor 10:21 : 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
• 1 Cor 11:26-28 : 26 For as often as ye eat {G302} this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death till {G302} he come. 27 Wherefore whosoever {G302} shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.