1 Corinthians 12:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But now they are many members, {G3303} but one body.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

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High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

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 12:14 : 14 For the body is not one member, but many.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

1 Cor 12:11-19
9 verses
90%
11but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will.
12For 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.
13For {G2532} in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.
14For the body is not one member, but many.
15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him.
19And if they were all one member, where were the body?
Rom 12:4-5
2 verses
87%
4For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:
5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and {G2596} severally members one of another.
1 Cor 12:21-27
7 verses
86%
21And the eye cannot {G3756} say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
22Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary:
23and those parts of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;
24whereas our comely [parts] have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that [part] which lacked;
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 suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or [one] member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27Now ye are the body of Christ, and {G1537} severally members thereof.
1 Cor 10:16-17
2 verses
77%
16The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ?
17seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread.
Eph 4:4-5
2 verses
74%
4[ There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;
5one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Eph 5:30
73%
30because we are members of his body.
1 Cor 12:4-6
3 verses
72%
4Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord.
6And there are diversities of workings, but {G2076} the same God, who worketh all things in all.
Eph 4:16
72%
16from 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.
1 Cor 6:15-17
3 verses
72%
15Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
16Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become {G1519} one flesh.
17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
Eph 1:23
71%
23which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
1 Cor 1:12
71%
12Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I {G3303} am of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
Col 2:19
71%
19and 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.
1 Cor 1:10
70%
10Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing and [that] there be no divisions among you; but [that] ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1 Cor 3:4
69%
4For when one saith, I {G3303} am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?
1 Cor 15:38-40
3 verses
69%
38but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
39All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one {G3303} [flesh] of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.
40There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial is another.
Eph 2:21
69%
21in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;
Eph 4:12
68%
12for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
1 Cor 11:30
68%
30For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
1 Cor 15:44
68%
44it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, {G2532} there is also a spiritual [body].
1 Cor 8:6
68%
6yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.
1 Cor 12:1
68%
1Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
1 Cor 12:29
68%
29Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all [workers of] miracles?
1 Cor 14:10
68%
10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is without signification.
1 Cor 15:11
68%
11Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
Rom 15:6
67%
6that with one accord ye may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Cor 6:19
67%
19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
1 Cor 14:26
67%
26What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.