1 CORINTHIANS 12:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And 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.”
And the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty — Paul refers obliquely to the body's hidden and shameful parts (genitals, bowels); these receive protective covering (perikalypto, to cover around) precisely because they are less honorable in appearance; the covering paradoxically grants them honor.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 12:23
“And those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.” In every clause adding the term “body,” and thereby both consoling the one and checking the other. “For I affirm not this only, ” says he, “that the greater have need of the less, but that they have also much need. Since if there be anything weak in us, if anything dishonorable, this is both necessary and enjoys…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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