1 Corinthians 12:18

But now God has placed the parts, each one of them, in the body just as he intended.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

In Context

17If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

19And if they were all one part, where would be the body?

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Cross References

Psalms 135:6Whatever LORD pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps,

Jonah 1:14Therefore they cried to LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood. For thou, O LORD, have done as it pleased thee.

Luke 12:32Fear not, little flock, because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.

1 Corinthians 3:5Who therefore is Paul and who is Apollos? But rather helpers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each man.

1 Corinthians 12:24whereas our presentable parts have no need. Instead, God united the body together, having given more abundant worth to the part that lacks,

1 Corinthians 15:38But God gives it a body as he wills, and to each of the seeds its own body.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 12:13-27

Union Recommended. ( a. d. 57.) 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. 13 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? 16 And if the ear shall say, Because… Read the whole commentary →

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