1 Corinthians 12:18

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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

19If they were all one member, where would the body be?

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Cross References

Psalms 135:6Whatever the LORD pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

Jonah 1:14Therefore they cried to the LORD, and said, “We beg you, LORD, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, LORD, have done as it pleased you.”

Luke 12:32“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

1 Corinthians 3:5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

1 Corinthians 12:24while our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honour to the inferior part,

1 Corinthians 15:38But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

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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