1 Corinthians 12:22

But rather, those members which are accounted feeble, are indispensable.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

In Context

21The eye cannot say to the hand, Thou art not needful to me: nor can the head say to the feet, Ye are not needful to me.

23And those which we think dishonorable in the body, on them we heap more honor; and those that are uncomely, on them we put the more decoration.

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Cross References

Titus 2:9Let servants obey their masters in every thing, and strive to please them, and not contradict, nor pilfer;

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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