1 Corinthians 12:21

Geneva Bible (1560)

And the eye cannot say vnto the hand, I haue no neede of thee: nor the head againe to the feete, I haue no neede of you.

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  • Num 10:31-32 : 31 Then he sayd, I pray thee, leaue vs not: for thou knowest our camping places in the wildernesse: therefore thou mayest be our guide. 32 And if thou go with vs, what goodnes the Lord shall shew vnto vs, the same will we shewe vnto thee.
  • 1 Sam 25:32 : 32 Then Dauid said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lorde God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meete me.
  • Ezra 10:1-5 : 1 Whiles Ezra prayed thus, and confessed himselfe weeping, and falling downe before the house of God, there assembled vnto him of Israel a very great Congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept with a great lamentation. 2 Then Shechaniah the sonne of Iehiel one of the sonnes of Elam answered, & sayd to Ezra, We haue trespassed against our God, & haue taken strange wiues of the people of the land, yet nowe there is hope in Israel concerning this. 3 Now therfore let vs make a couenant with our God, to put away all the wiues (and such as are borne of them) according to the counsell of the Lord, and of those that feare the commandements of our God, and let it be done according to the Lawe. 4 Arise: for the matter belogeth vnto thee: we also wil be with thee: be of comfort and do it. 5 Then arose Ezra, and caused the chiefe Priestes, the Leuites, and all Israel, to sweare that they would doe according to this worde. So they sware.
  • Neh 4:16-21 : 16 And from that day, halfe of the yong men did the labour, and the other halfe part of them helde the speares, and shieldes, and bowes, and habergins: and the rulers stoode behinde all the house of Iudah. 17 They that buylded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, and they that laded, did the worke with one hand, and with the other helde the sworde. 18 For euery one of the buylders had his sworde girded on his loynes, and so buylded: and he that blewe the trumpet, was beside me. 19 Then saide I vnto the Princes, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The worke is great and large, and we are separated vpon the wall, one farre from another. 20 In what place therefore ye heare the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither vnto vs: our God shall fight for vs. 21 So we laboured in the worke, and halfe of them helde the speares, from the appearing of the morning, till the starres came foorth.
  • Job 29:11 : 11 And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me.

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    22Yea, much rather those members of the body, which seeme to be more feeble, are necessarie.

    23And vpon those members of the body, which wee thinke most vnhonest, put wee more honestie on: and our vncomely parts haue more comelinesse on.

    24For our comely partes neede it not: but God hath tempered the body together, and hath giuen the more honour to that part which lacked,

    25Lest there should be any diuision in the body: but that the members shoulde haue the same care one for another.

    26Therefore if one member suffer, all suffer with it: if one member be had in honour, all the members reioyce with it.

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    12For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, which is one, though they be many, yet are but one body: euen so is Christ.

    13For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we bee Iewes, or Grecians, whether we be bonde, or free, and haue bene all made to drinke into one Spirit.

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

    15If the foote would say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

    16And if the eare would say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

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

    18But nowe hath God disposed the members euery one of them in the bodie at his owne pleasure.

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

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    4For as wee haue many members in one body, and all members haue not one office,

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    19And holdeth not the head, whereof all the body furnished and knit together by ioyntes and bands, increaseth with the increasing of God.

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    16By whome al the body being coupled and knit together by euery ioynt, for ye furniture therof (according to the effectual power, which is in the measure of euery part) receiueth increase of the body, vnto the edifying of itselfe in loue.

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    11Neuertheles, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord.

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    9Simon Peter sayd vnto him, Lord, not my feete onely, but also the hands and the head.

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    30For we are members of his bodie, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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    4Abide in me, and I in you: as the branche cannot beare fruite of it selfe, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

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    12Wherfore lift vp your hands which hang downe, and your weake knees,

    13And make straight steppes vnto your feete, lest that which is halting, be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.

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    23The life is more then meate: and the body more then the raiment.

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    24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hande for hand, foote for foote,

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    19Or a man that hath a broken foote, or a broken hande,

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    15For if a brother or a sister bee naked and destitute of daily foode,

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    21Therefore thine eye shall have no compassion, but life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote.

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    19Thou wilt say then, The branches are broken off, that I might be graft in.

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    7They haue handes and touche not: they haue feete and walke not: neither make they a sound with their throte.