Verse 17

If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 9:9 : 9 (In the past in Israel, when a man went to get directions from God, he said, Come let us go to the Seer, for he who now is named Prophet was in those days given the name of Seer.)
  • Ps 94:9 : 9 Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?
  • Ps 139:13-16 : 13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body. 14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious. 15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.
  • Prov 20:12 : 12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye are equally the Lord's work.
  • 1 Cor 12:21 : 21 And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
  • 1 Cor 12:29 : 29 Are all Apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? have all the power of working wonders?