1 Corinthians 12:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body.

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  • Judg 9:8-9 : 8 One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us. 9 But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees? 10 Then the trees said to the fig-tree, You come and be king over us. 11 But the fig-tree said to them, Am I to give up my sweet taste and my good fruit and go waving over the trees? 12 Then the trees said to the vine, You come and be king over us. 13 But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees? 14 Then all the trees said to the thorn, You come and be king over us. 15 And the thorn said to the trees, If it is truly your desire to make me your king, then come and put your faith in my shade; and if not, may fire come out of the thorn, burning up the cedars of Lebanon.
  • 2 Kgs 14:9 : 9 And Jehoash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.

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  • 1 Cor 12:16-27
    12 verses
    93%

    16And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same.

    17If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?

    18But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.

    19And if they were all one part, where would the body be?

    20But now they are all different parts, but one body.

    21And 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.

    22No, those parts which seem to be feeble are the more necessary;

    23And to those parts of the body which seem to have less honour we give all the more honour; and to those parts of the body which are a cause of shame to us we give the greater respect;

    24But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it;

    25So that there might be no division in the body; but all the parts might have the same care for one another.

    26And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad.

    27Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.

  • 1 Cor 12:12-14
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    12For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

    13For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit.

    14For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    80%

    4For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,

    5So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

  • 1 Cor 6:15
    72%

    15Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

  • Eph 5:30
    71%

    30Because we are parts of his body.

  • Col 2:19
    71%

    19And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

  • Matt 18:8
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    8And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire.

  • 1 Cor 15:11-12
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    69%

    11If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.

    12Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?

  • 1 Cor 15:35
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    35But someone will say, How do the dead come back? and with what sort of body do they come?

  • John 13:9
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    9Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head.

  • 1 Cor 10:16-17
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    69%

    16The cup of blessing which we take, does it not give us a part in the blood of Christ? and is not the broken bread a taking part in the body of Christ?

    17Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.

  • Heb 12:12-13
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    69%

    12For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,

    13And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.

  • 1 Cor 3:4
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    4For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?

  • Matt 5:30
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    30And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

  • Eph 4:16
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    16Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

  • Lev 21:19
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    19Or a man with broken feet or hands,

  • Rom 8:9
    69%

    9You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

  • Mark 9:45
    68%

    45And if your foot is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off: it is better for you to go into life with one foot than to have two feet and go into hell.

  • John 15:4-6
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    68%

    4Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.

    5I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.

    6If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

  • Rom 11:19
    68%

    19You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.

  • Ps 115:7
    68%

    7They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.

  • 1 Cor 6:19
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    19Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

  • 1 Cor 15:37-39
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    68%

    37And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;

    38But God gives it a body, as it is pleasing to him, and to every seed its special body.

    39All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, and another of fishes.

  • 1 Cor 1:12
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    12That is, that some of you say, I am of Paul; some say, I am of Apollos; some say, I am of Cephas; and some say, I am Christ's.

  • 1 Cor 15:16
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    16For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again:

  • Jas 2:15
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    15If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,

  • 1 Cor 15:44
    67%

    44It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.

  • Rom 11:17
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    17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

  • 1 Cor 12:1
    67%

    1But about the things of the spirit, my brothers, it is not right for you to be without teaching.