1st Corinthians Chapter 10 verse 17 Holy Bible
seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread.
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Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.
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Because we, [being] many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf.
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For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
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Because we, who are many, are one bread, one body; for we all partake of the one bread.
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because one bread, one body, are we the many -- for we all of the one bread do partake.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - We being many are one bread, and one body. It is easy to see how we are "one body," of which Christ is the Head, and we are the members. This is the metaphor used in 1 Corinthians 12:12, 13 and Romans 12:5. The more difficult expression, "we are one bread," is explained in the next clause. The meaning seems to be - We all partake of the loaf, and thereby become qualitatively, as it were, a part of it, as it of us, even as we all become members of Christ's one body, which that loaf sacramentally represents Some commentators, disliking the harshness of the expression, render it, "Because there is one bread, we being many are one body;" or, "For there is one bread. We being many are one body." But the language and context support the rendering of our version; and the supposed "physiology" is not so modern as to be at all surprising.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) For we being many are one bread.--Better, For it is one bread, and we, the many, are one body, for we all take a portion of that one bread. This verse explains how "the breaking" of the bread was the significant act which expressed sacramentally the communion of the body of Christ. There is one bread, it is broken into many pieces, and as we all (though each receives only a fragment) partake of the one bread which unbroken consisted of these pieces, we though many individuals are one body, even the Body of Christ with whom, as well as with each other, we have communion in that act.
