1 Corinthians 12:17

And if the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? Or if it were all hearing, where would be the smelling?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

16Or if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it, on that account, not of the body?

18But now hath God placed every one of the members in the body, according to his pleasure.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 12:29Are they all legates? Are they all prophets? Are they all teachers? Are they all workers of miracles?

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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