Romans 12:4
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
KJV
καθάπερ γὰρ ἐν ἑνὶ σώματι πολλὰ μέλη ἔχομεν, τὰ δὲ μέλη πάντα οὐ τὴν αὐτὴν ἔχει πρᾶξιν,
Greek NT
Sicut enim in uno corpore multa membra habemus, omnia autem membra non eumdem actum habent :
Vulgate
For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:
ASV
For as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office:
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
καθάπερ
kathaper
adverb · 15×
μέλος
melos
noun · 34×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
πρᾶξις
praxis
noun · 6×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
σῶμα
soma
noun · 141×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: πολλὰ μέλη | WH/Treg/NIV: πολλὰ μέλη | RP: μέλη πολλὰ
- πολλὰ μέλη — SBLGNT
- πολλὰ μέλη — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- μέλη πολλὰ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1142But "the members do not all have the same function."12 Certain members are called by God, in and through the Church, to a special service of the community. These servants are chosen and consecrated by the sacrament of Holy Orders, by which the Holy Spirit enables them to act in the person of Christ the head, for the service of all the members of the Church.13 The ordained minis…
2. Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant; calling the signs spiritual, because they are the works of the Spirit alone, human effort contributing nothing to the working such wonders. And intending to discourse concerning them, first, as I said, he lays down the difference between soothsaying and prophecy, thus saying, You know that when you were…
§16Again, as in nature a body is not formed by any haphazard grouping of members but must be constituted of organs, that is of members, that have not the same function and are arranged in due order; so for this reason above all the Church is called a body, that it is constituted by the coalescence of structurally untied parts, and that it has a variety of members reciprocally depe…
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice. Calvin shows that the practical exhortations of chapters 12-16 flow directly from the doctrinal foundation of chapters 1-11. The life of the Christian is to be a living sacrifice — wholly consecrated to God. The renewing of the mind is the pattern by which believers are con…
We believe the members of the Catholic Church to be all the faithful, and only the faithful; who, having received the blameless faith of the Saviour Christ, and holding fast to the same in true confession, although some of them may be guilty of all manner of sins, are still members of the Church. For if they were not members, they would not be subject to the Church's discipline…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 12:4 — Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
- 1Cor 12:4 — Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
- 1Cor 12:12 — For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
- 1Cor 12:12 — For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
- 1Cor 12:27 — Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
- Col 2:19 — And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
- Eph 4:4 — There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
- Eph 4:4 — There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
- Eph 4:15 — But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
- Phil 1:27 — Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striv