1 Corinthians 10:17 Meaning and Explanation
“For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.”
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What Does 1 Corinthians 10:17 Mean?
Paul draws out a further truth from the shared loaf. Though the believers are 'many,' partaking of 'that one bread' makes them 'one body.' The single loaf, broken and shared, becomes a picture and a means of their unity in Christ. What joins them to the Lord also joins them to each other.
This is a healing word for a church torn by factions. The table is no private affair but the place where divisions are meant to dissolve into one fellowship. To eat the one bread is to confess that we belong together because we belong to Christ. Paul calls the Corinthians to live out at the Lord's table the oneness it signifies, so that the unity given by Christ is honored in how they treat one another.
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What does 1 Corinthians 10:17 mean?
Because all share in the one bread, the many believers are made one body.