1 Corinthians 12:24

and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

In Context

23and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

25that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

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Cross References

Genesis 3:11And He saith, 'Who hath declared to thee that thou [art] naked? of the tree of which I have commanded thee not to eat, hast thou eaten?'

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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