1 Corinthians 12:18
and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,
Young's Literal Translation
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 the whole body [were] an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?
19and if all were one member, where the body?
Cross References
Psalms 135:6All that Jehovah pleased He hath done, In the heavens and in earth, In the seas and all deep places,
Jonah 1:14And they cry unto Jehovah, and say, 'We pray Thee, O Jehovah, let us not, we pray Thee, perish for this man's life, and do not lay on us innocent blood, for Thou, Jehovah, as Thou hast pleased, Thou hast done.'
Luke 12:32'Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;
1 Corinthians 3:5Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?
1 Corinthians 12:24and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,
1 Corinthians 15:38and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper 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 →