1 Corinthians 12:17

If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same.

18But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.

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Cross References

Psalms 94:9Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

Proverbs 20:12The hearing ear and the seeing eye are equally the Lord's work.

1 Corinthians 12:29Are all Apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? have all the power of working wonders?

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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