1 Corinthians 12:13

Fellowship and the church Baptism The Holy Spirit Identity and self-worth

¹¹ But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many.

¹⁵ If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
KJV: For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
WEB: For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
ASV: For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.
DARBY: For also in [the power of] one Spirit *we* have all been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit.
BLB: For also in one Spirit we all were baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

ÅB: for vi er jo alle døpt med én Ånd til å være ett legeme, enten vi er jøder eller grekere, enten vi er slaver eller frie; og vi har alle fått én Ånd å drikke.
OTB: For ved én Ånd ble vi alle døpt til én kropp, enten jøder eller grekere, enten slaver eller frie, og vi ble alle gjort til å få del i én Ånd.
B1930: for vi er jo alle døpt med én Ånd til å være ett legeme, enten vi er jøder eller grekere, enten vi er træler eller frie; og vi har alle fått én Ånd å drikke.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ephesians 4:5
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
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Colossians 3:11
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
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Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
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John 7:37–39
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
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Romans 6:3–6
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
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1 Peter 3:21
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
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Acts 1:5
For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
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Ephesians 2:11–22
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
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