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1 Corinthians 12:26

And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

KJV

καὶ εἴτε πάσχει ἓν μέλος, συνπάσχει πάντα τὰ μέλη· εἴτε δοξάζεται μέλος, συνχαίρει πάντα τὰ μέλη.

Greek NT

Et si quid patitur unum membrum, compatiuntur omnia membra : sive gloriatur unum membrum, congaudent omnia membra.

Vulgate

And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

ASV

And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with it: or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δοξάζω
doxazo
verb · 61×
εἴτε
eite
conjunction · 65×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μέλος
melos
noun · 34×
πάσχω
pascho
verb · 41×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
συγχαίρω
sugchairo
verb · 7×
συμπάσχω
sumpascho
verb · 2×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: εἴτε | WH/NIV/RP: εἴτε | Treg: εἴ τι
  • εἴτε — SBLGNT
  • εἴτε — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • εἴ τι — Tregelles
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: μέλος | WH/Treg: μέλος | NIV/RP: ἓν μέλος
  • μέλος — SBLGNT
  • μέλος — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
  • ἓν μέλος — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§791The body's unity does not do away with the diversity of its members: "In the building up of Christ's Body there is engaged a diversity of members and functions. There is only one Spirit who, according to his own richness and the needs of the ministries, gives his different gifts for the welfare of the Church."222 The unity of the Mystical Body produces and stimulates charity am…
§953Communion in charity. In the sanctorum communio, "None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself."487 "If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it."488 "Charity does not insist on its own way."489 In this solidarity with all men, living or dead, which is fo…
§1469This sacrament reconciles us with the Church. Sin damages or even breaks fraternal communion. the sacrament of Penance repairs or restores it. In this sense it does not simply heal the one restored to ecclesial communion, but has also a revitalizing effect on the life of the Church which suffered from the sin of one of her members.76 Re-established or strengthened in the commun…
2. What then says Peter? "He says, Yea:" and to these indeed he said, that He pays, but to Him he said it not, blushing perhaps to speak to Him of these things. Wherefore that gentle one, well knowing as He did all things, prevented him,"saying, What do you think, Simon? Of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? Of their own sons, or of strangers;" and when he s…
§96And first of all let us imitate the breadth of His love. For the Church, the Bride of Christ, is one; and yet so vast is the love of the divine Spouse that it embraces in His Bride the whole human race without exception. Our Savior shed His Blood precisely in order that He might reconcile men to God through the Cross, and might constrain them to unite in one body, however widel…

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 3:8 — Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
  • 1Pet 3:8 — Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
  • 2Cor 7:13 — Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
  • Acts 12:5 — Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
  • Esth 4:5 — Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king’s chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.
  • Exod 18:9 — And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
  • Gal 6:2 — Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
  • Heb 13:3 — Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
  • Heb 13:3 — Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
  • Job 2:11 — Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they ha
  • Job 6:14 — To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
  • Job 42:11 — Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him
  • John 13:34 — A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
  • Luke 1:58 — And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
  • Luke 15:24 — For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
  • Ps 35:27 — Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
  • Rom 12:15 — Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
  • Rom 12:15 — Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.