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Used in these topics: The Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts · The church, fellowship and unity · The priesthood and ministry of all believers
In this section Paul wrote about different spiritual gifts, or abilities, that the Holy Spirit gives to believers. He listed some of these spiritual gifts and taught that God gave them to us to help the church. He compared the body of Christ with the human body in order to explain that all of the spiritual gifts are important to the church.
Here are some other possible section headings:
Using spiritual gifts
God gives spiritual gifts to each member of the body
About spiritual gifts
For the body does not consist of one part, but of many.
¶ The human body does not have just one part. It is made up of many parts.
¶ A person’s body has many different parts, not just one part.
For: The Greek phrase that the BSB translates as For introduces a return to the thought of 12:12.
Here are some other ways to translate this Greek phrase:
Now (NIV)
Even so
the body does not consist of one part, but of many: The Greek phrase that the BSB translates as does not consist of is literally “is not.”
Here are some other ways to translate this phrase:
is not made up of (NIV)
does not have
In some languages it may be natural to state first what the body does consist of:
the body consists of many parts, not only one
the body has many parts rather than just one
the body: The word body refers to the human body. You should translate it the same way you translated it in 12:12.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun
τὸ σῶμα
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: καί Γάρ τό σῶμα οὐκ ἐστίν ἕν μέλος ἀλλά πολλά)
Here Paul is speaking of “bodies” in general, not of one particular body. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this form with a form that refers to “bodies” in general. Alternate translation: [any body]
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.