1 Corinthians 12:17

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 9:9 : 9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
  • Ps 94:9 : 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
  • Ps 139:13-16 : 13 For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother's womb. 14 I will give thanks unto thee; For I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well. 15 My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, [And] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, [Even] the days that were ordained [for me], When as yet there was none of them.
  • Prov 20:12 : 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.
  • 1 Cor 12:21 : 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: 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? are all [workers of] miracles?

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    11but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will.

    12For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

    13For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.

    14For the body is not one member, but many.

    15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.

    16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.

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    18But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him.

    19And if they were all one member, where were the body?

    20But now they are many members, but one body.

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    22Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary:

    23and those [parts] of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness;

    24whereas our comely [parts] have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that [part] which lacked;

    25that there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another.

    26And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or [one] member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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    4For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:

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    12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.

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    22The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

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    7Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

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