1 Corinthians 12:18
But now God has set the members, each one of them in the body, according as it has pleased [him].
Darby Translation
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 the hearing? if all hearing, where the smelling?
19But if all were one member, where the body?
Cross References
Psalms 135:6Whatsoever Jehovah pleased, he hath done in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all deeps;
Jonah 1:14And they cried unto Jehovah and said, Ah, Jehovah, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, Jehovah, hast done as it pleased thee.
Luke 12:32Fear not, little flock, for it has been the good pleasure of your Father to give you the kingdom.
1 Corinthians 3:5Who then is Apollos, and who Paul? Ministering servants, through whom ye have believed, and as the Lord has given to each.
1 Corinthians 12:24but our comely [parts] have not need. But God has tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to [the part] that lacked;
1 Corinthians 15:38and God gives to it a body as he has pleased, 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 →