1 Corinthians 12:17

If the eye were the whole body, where is the hearing? If the hearing where the whole body, where is the smelling?

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 may say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, it is not on account of this not of the body.

18But now God has placed the members each one of them in the body, as he wished.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 12:29Whether are all apostles? whether are all prophets? whether are all teachers? whether are all dynamites?

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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