1 Corinthians 12:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Num 10:31-32 : 31 And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents. 32 And if you come with us, we will give you a part in whatever good the Lord does for us.
  • 1 Sam 25:32 : 32 And David said to Abigail, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, who sent you to me today:
  • Ezra 10:1-5 : 1 Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly. 2 And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question. 3 Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law. 4 Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it. 5 Then Ezra got up, and made the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do this. So they took an oath.
  • Neh 4:16-21 : 16 And from that time, half of my servants were doing their part of the work, and half kept the spears and body-covers and the bows and the metal war-dresses; and the chiefs were at the back of the men of Judah. 17 Those who were building the wall and those who were moving material did their part, everyone working with one hand, with his spear in the other; 18 Every builder was working with his sword at his side. And by my side was a man for sounding the horn. 19 And I said to the great ones and the chiefs and the rest of the people, The work is great and widely spaced and we are far away from one another on the wall: 20 Wherever you may be when the horn is sounded, come here to us; our God will be fighting for us. 21 So we went on with the work: and half of them had spears in their hands from the dawn of the morning till the stars were seen.
  • Job 29:11 : 11 For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;

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    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 12:12-20
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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.

    15If 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.

    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.

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    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;

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    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.

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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.

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    11But the woman is not separate from the man, and the man is not separate from the woman in the Lord.

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

  • Eph 5:30
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    30Because we are parts of his body.

  • John 15:4-5
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    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.

  • Heb 12:12-13
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    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.

  • Luke 12:23
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    23Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?

  • Exod 21:24
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    24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

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

  • Acts 20:34
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    34You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

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    6My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

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    6The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

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

    16And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?

  • Prov 20:12
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    12The hearing ear and the seeing eye are equally the Lord's work.

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    29And 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.

    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.

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    24Still, to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you.

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    12Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.

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    40Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

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    6And there are different operations, but the same God, who is working all things in all.

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    22The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light.

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

  • 1 Thess 5:1
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    1But about the times and their order, my brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you.

  • Deut 19:21
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    21Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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

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