1 Corinthians 12:18

But in fact God has placed each individual part just where he thought fit in the body.

Twentieth Century New Testament

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

17If all the body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If it were all hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

19If, however, they all made up only one part, where would the body be?

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Cross References

Luke 12:32So do not be afraid, my little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the Kingdom.

1 Corinthians 3:5What, I ask, is Apollos? or what is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to accept the Faith; and that only as the Lord helped each of you.

1 Corinthians 12:24Yes, God has so constructed the body — by giving a special honour to the part that lacks it —

1 Corinthians 15:38God gives it the body that he pleases — to each seed its special 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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