1 Corinthians 12:18

But now God has placed the members, each of them, in the body, as it has pleased him.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

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 were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

19And if they were all one member, where were the body?

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Cross References

Luke 12:32Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

1 Corinthians 3:5Who, then, is Paul? and who is Apollos? Ministers by whom you have believed, even as the Lord gave to each one.

1 Corinthians 12:24for our comely members have no need. But God has so arranged the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which is deficient,

1 Corinthians 15:38but God gives it a body, as it pleases him; and to every seed, its proper 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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