Romans 12:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

1 Cor 12:4 : 4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
1 Cor 12:27 : 27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and {G1537} severally members thereof.
1 Cor 12:12-14 : 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. 13 For {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. 14 For the body is not one member, but many.
Eph 4:15-16 : 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ; 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 4:4 : 4 [ There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

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 12:4-29
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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.
7But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal.
8For to one {G3303} is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:
9to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit;
10and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues:
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?
20But now they are many members, {G3303} but one body.
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.
28And God hath set some {G3303} in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, [divers] kinds of tongues.
29Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all [workers of] miracles?
Rom 12:5-7
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5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and {G2596} severally members one of another.
6And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, [let us] [prophesy] according to the proportion of our faith;
7or ministry, [let us give ourselves] to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching;
Eph 4:11-12
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11And he gave some [to be] apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
1 Cor 10:17
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17seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread.
Eph 4:4
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4[ There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;
Eph 4:16
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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 Pet 4:10
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10according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;
Rom 12:3
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3For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think {G1519} soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.
Eph 4:7
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7But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Eph 5:30
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30because we are members of his body.
1 Cor 4:6
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6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.
1 Cor 7:7
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7Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one {G3303} after this manner, and another after that.
Rom 14:12
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12So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.
1 Cor 3:9
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9For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
1 Cor 3:4-5
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4For when one saith, I {G3303} am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?
5What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? {G235} {G2228} Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.
1 Cor 1:12
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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.
1 Cor 7:17
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17Only, {G3361} as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.
2 Cor 4:12
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12So then death {G3303} worketh in us, but life in you.
1 Cor 14:26
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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.
1 Cor 12:1
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1Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
1 Cor 6:15
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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.