1 Corinthians 12:18
But instead, God has placed the parts, each one of them, in the body, just as it has pleased him.
Catholic Public Domain 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 the eye, how would it hear? If the whole were hearing, how would it smell?
19So if they were all one part, how would it be a body?
Cross References
Psalms 135:6He established the earth above the waters, for his mercy is eternal.
Jonah 1:14And they cried out to the Lord, and they said, “We beseech you, Lord, do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not attribute to us innocent blood. For you, Lord, have done just as it pleased you.”
Luke 12:32Do not be afraid, little flock; for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom.
1 Corinthians 3:5We are only the ministers of him in whom you have believed, just as the Lord has granted to each of you.
1 Corinthians 12:24However, our presentable parts have no such need, since God has tempered the body together, distributing the more abundant honor to that which has the need,
1 Corinthians 15:38For God gives it a body according to his will, and according to each seed’s 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 →