What Does 1 Corinthians 12:15 Mean in the King James?
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Not being the hand does not place the foot outside the body; difference does not cancel belonging.
THE MEANING
Your place in the whole is not canceled by lacking another part’s shape or function. The foot can be unlike the hand without its belonging to the body becoming false.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that you belong only if you resemble someone else or perform their role.
THE ROOT
σῶμα
sōma
GROWS FROM
σωμ- (sōm-), the Greek stem of σῶμα
body; an embodied whole
The word names the whole body that contains its distinct parts. The foot’s difference from the hand does not make it less bodily: the question exposes how unlike functions can belong to one whole.
ALSO GROWS
sōmata: bodies; the plural form of σῶμα
σώματα
The same word can name multiple bodies without implying they must all have one shape or role.
sōmatikós: bodily; pertaining to a body
σωματικός
This form keeps the sense concrete and embodied: the passage speaks of belonging within a body, not matching an abstract ideal.
THE PATTERN
A living whole includes distinct parts whose difference does not cancel their belonging.
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.THE THREAD
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.The same Greek word, σῶμα (sōma, body), names the whole the foot fears it is outside. The nearby verse says each member is set within it, making belonging a matter of place in the whole rather than resemblance to another part.
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