1 Corinthians 12:17

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

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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

16If the ear would say, “Because I’m not the eye, I’m not part of the body,” it’s not therefore not part of the body.

18But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

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Cross References

Psalms 94:9He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

Proverbs 20:12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.

1 Corinthians 12:29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?

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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