1 Corinthians 12:17

If the whole body were the eye, how would it hear? If the whole were hearing, how would it smell?

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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 were to say, “Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body,” would it then not be of the body?

18But instead, God has placed the parts, each one of them, in the body, just as it has pleased him.

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Cross References

Psalms 94:9as in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tempted me; they tested me, though they had seen my works.

Proverbs 20:12The hearing ear and the seeing eye: the Lord has made them both.

1 Corinthians 12:29Are all Apostles? Are all Prophets? Are all Teachers?

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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