1 Corinthians 12:17

If the whole body [were] an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?

Young's Literal Translation

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 an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?

18and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,

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Cross References

Psalms 94:9He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?

Proverbs 20:12A hearing ear, and a seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.

1 Corinthians 12:29[are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [are] all powers?

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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