1 Corinthians 12:18

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

17And if the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? Or if it were all hearing, where would be the smelling?

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

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Cross References

Luke 12:32Fear not, little flock; for your Father is disposed to give you the kingdom

1 Corinthians 3:5For, who is Paul, or who is Apollos, but the ministers by whom ye believed, each one as the Lord gave to him?

1 Corinthians 12:24For the honorable members in us, have no need of honor: for God hath tempered the body, and given more honor to the member which is inferior;

1 Corinthians 15:38and God giveth it a body, as he pleaseth; and to each of the grains its natural 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 →

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