1COR 12:19 Parallel Verse View

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Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

UST Imagine that all your body parts were the same kind of body part. You would not really have a body at all!

AICNT If all were a single member, where would the body be?

OEB If, however, they all made up only one part, where would the body be?

WEBBE If they were all one member, where would the body be?

WMBB (Same as above)

NET If they were all the same member, where would the body be?

LSV and if all were one member, where [is] the body?

FBV If they were all the same part, what would happen to the body?

TCNT If they were all one member, where would the body be?

T4T If our body had only one part, it would not be a body. [RHQ]

LEB And if they all were one member, where would the body be?

BBE And if they were all one part, where would the body be?

Moff No Moff 1COR book available

Wymth If they were all one part, where would the body be?

ASV And if they were all one member, where were the body?

DRA And if they all were one member, where would be the body?

YLT and if all were one member, where the body?

Drby But if all were one member, where the body?

RV And if they were all one member, where were the body?

Wbstr And if they were all one member, where were the body?

KJB-1769 And if they were all one member, where were the body?

KJB-1611 And if they were all one member, where were the body?

Bshps For yf they were all one member, where were the body?
(For if they were all one member, where were the body?)

Gnva For if they were all one member, where were the body?

Cvdl Neuertheles yf all the mebres were one membre, where were then the body?
(Nevertheless if all the mebres were one membre, where were then the body?)

TNT If they were all one member: where were the body?

Wyc That if alle weren o membre, where were the bodi?
(That if all were o membre, where were the bodi?)

Luth So aber alle Glieder ein Glied wären, wo bliebe der Leib?
(So but all member/elementer a member/element wären, where bliebe the/of_the Leib?)

ClVg Quod si essent omnia unum membrum, ubi corpus?[fn]
(That when/but_if they_would_be everything one membrum, where body? )

12.19 Quod si essent omnia unum, non modo multitudo sensuum periret, sed etiam corpus. Ita si in Ecclesia omnes essent unius officii et dignitatis, non discernerentur membra neque corpus.

12.19 That when/but_if they_would_be everything unum, not/no modo multitudo sensuum periret, but also body. Ita when/but_if in Ecclesia everyone they_would_be of_one officii and dignitatis, not/no discernerentur members nor body.

UGNT εἰ δὲ ἦν τὰ πάντα ἓν μέλος, ποῦ τὸ σῶμα?
(ei de aʸn ta panta hen melos, pou to sōma?)

SBL-GNT εἰ δὲ ἦν τὰ πάντα ἓν μέλος, ποῦ τὸ σῶμα;
(ei de aʸn ta panta hen melos, pou to sōma;)

TC-GNT Εἰ δὲ ἦν τὰ πάντα ἓν μέλος, ποῦ τὸ σῶμα;
(Ei de aʸn ta panta hen melos, pou to sōma; )

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / hypo

εἰ & ἦν τὰ πάντα ἓν μέλος, ποῦ

if & was the_‹things› all one member where_‹is›

Here Paul is using a hypothetical situation to teach the Corinthians. He wants them to imagine that all the body parts were just one member, that is, one kind of body part. He uses this hypothetical situation because it is absurd for all body parts to be one member. Use a natural way in your language to introduce a hypothetical situation. Alternate translation: “suppose they were all one member; where”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

τὰ & ἓν μέλος

the_‹things› & one member

Here, one member refers to one kind of member. In other words, it does not indicate that there is only one body part (one arm, for example). Rather, it indicates that all the body parts are of one type (as if all the ears, legs, and other body parts were all arms). If it would be helpful in your language, you could express one member by clarifying that Paul has in mind many members that are of one kind. Alternate translation: “one kind of member” or “one type of member”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

ποῦ τὸ σῶμα?

where_‹is› the body

Paul does not ask this question because he is looking for information about where the body is. Rather, he asks it to involve the Corinthians in what he is arguing. The question assumes that the answer is “nowhere.” In other words, a body that is made up of only one member is not a body at all. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the idea behind this question with a strong negation. Alternate translation: “there would be no body!” or “the body would certainly not exist.”

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