KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
1 Corinthians 12:22–23
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1 Corinthians 12:22
22Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
22Nay, much more those members of the bodie, which seeme to bee more feeble, are necessary.
1 Corinthians 12:23
23And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
23And those members of the bodie, which wee thinke to bee lesse honourable, vpon these we ‖bestow more abundant honour, and our vncomely parts haue more abundant comelinesse.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Corinthians 12:22
Denial, refusal.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A great quantity or degree; abundant in amount.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Limbs or subordinate parts of bodies; individual constituents belonging to larger bodies.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A physical body; a corpse; or an organized whole composed of members, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To appear, be regarded, or be fitting.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Weak, lacking strength.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
That must be; that cannot be otherwise; indispensably requisite.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
1 Corinthians 12:23
Limbs or subordinate parts of bodies; individual constituents belonging to larger bodies.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A physical body; a corpse; or an organized whole composed of members, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To form or hold a thought; to judge, suppose, intend, consider, remember, imagine, or esteem, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Smaller in amount, degree, or importance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To place, put away, store, or give.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Present in great quantity; plentiful, overflowing, or more than ordinary.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Unbecoming, improper, or indecorous.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Portions or divisions of a whole; also divides, separates, departs, or assigns shares.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
comeliness
Beauty, attractiveness, or seemly appearance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 22
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Open the full verse study28In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
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Open the full verse study14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
15Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
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Open the full verse study9¶ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
10For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
11Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
12And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
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Open the full verse study11Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
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Open the full verse study9¶ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
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Open the full verse study9Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
10Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
From verse 23
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Open the full verse study21Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
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Open the full verse study7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
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