◄ 1 Corinthians 12:24 ►
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Good News Translation
which the more beautiful parts do not need. God himself has put the body together in such a way as to give greater honor to those parts that need it.

New Revised Standard Version
whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member,

Contemporary English Version
but we don't have to be modest about other parts. God put our bodies together in such a way that even the parts that seem the least important are valuable.

New American Bible
whereas our more presentable parts do not need this. But God has so constructed the body as to give greater honor to a part that is without it,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, giving to that which wanted the more abundant honour.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, giving to that which wanted the more abundant honour.

Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked: to wit, Adam and his wife: and were not ashamed.

Genesis 3:11 And he said to him: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat?

Context
The Body of Christ
…23And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. 24But our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, giving to that which wanted the more abundant honour. 25That there might be no schism in the body: but the members might be mutually careful one for another.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:29
And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than thy whole body be cast into hell.

1 Corinthians 12:23
And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

1 Corinthians 12:25
That there might be no schism in the body: but the members might be mutually careful one for another.

1 Corinthians 12:23
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