1 Corinthians 12:22

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Eccl 9:14-15 : 14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
  • Prov 14:28 : 28 In the multitude of people is the king's glory; But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
  • Eccl 4:9-9 : 9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up. 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm [alone] ? 12 And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
  • Eccl 5:9 : 9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.
  • 2 Cor 1:11 : 11 ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.
  • Titus 2:9-9 : 9 [ Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; not gainsaying; 10 not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

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    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.

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    17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

    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?

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

    27Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof.

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