1 Corinthians 12:17
If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?
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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?
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11 But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is.
12 For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.
13 For 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.
14 For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.
15 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.
16 And 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.
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18 But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.
19 And if they were all one part, where would the body be?
20 But now they are all different parts, but one body.
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.
22 No, those parts which seem to be feeble are the more necessary;
23 And 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;
24 But 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;
25 So that there might be no division in the body; but all the parts might have the same care for one another.
26 And 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.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.
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4 For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,
5 So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;
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6 They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell;
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12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye are equally the Lord's work.
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9 Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?
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22 The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light.
23 But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
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34 The light of the body is the eye: when your eye is true, all your body is full of light; but when it is evil, your body is dark.
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7 Even things without life, having a voice, such as a music-pipe or other instrument, if they do not give out different sounds, who may be certain what is being played?
8 For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight?
9 So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.
10 There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense.
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18 Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?
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16 But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.
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47 And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell,
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19 And 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.
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3 And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.
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23 If, then, the church has come together, and all are using tongues, and there come in men without knowledge or faith, will they not say that you are unbalanced?
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29 And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out 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.
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9 If any man has ears, let him give ear.
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17 They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.
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30 Are all able to take away disease? have all the power of tongues? are all able to give their sense?
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11 Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth?
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16 Through 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.
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9 He who has ears, let him give ear.
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15 He who has ears, let him give ear.
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36 If, then, all your body is light, with no part of it dark, it will be completely full of light, as when a flame with its bright shining gives you light.
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23 Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;
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18 Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
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17 Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.
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1 But about the things of the spirit, my brothers, it is not right for you to be without teaching.
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9 And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire.
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26 Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: