1 Corinthians 12:21

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

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  • Num 10:31-32 : 31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes. 32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
  • 1 Sam 25:32 : 32 ¶ And David said to Abigail, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
  • Ezra 10:1-5 : 1 ¶ Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore. 2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, [one] of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. 3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law. 4 Arise; for [this] matter [belongeth] unto thee: we also [will be] with thee: be of good courage, and do [it]. 5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.
  • Neh 4:16-21 : 16 ¶ And it came to pass from that time forth, [that] the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers [were] behind all the house of Judah. 17 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, [every one] with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other [hand] held a weapon. 18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and [so] builded. And he that sounded the trumpet [was] by me. 19 And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work [is] great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another. 20 In what place [therefore] ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us. 21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
  • Job 29:11 : 11 When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 86%

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

    23 And those [members] of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness.

    24 For our comely [parts] have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that [part] which lacked:

    25 That there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another.

    26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

    27 ¶ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

  • 85%

    12 ¶ For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ.

    13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

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

    15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

    16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

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

    18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

    19 And if they were all one member, where [were] the body?

    20 But now [are they] many members, yet but one body.

  • Rom 12:4-5
    2 verses
    78%

    4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

    5 So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

  • 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

  • 16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

  • 11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

  • 9 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also [my] hands and [my] head.

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

  • John 15:4-5
    2 verses
    67%

    4 ‹Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.›

    5 ‹I am the vine, ye› [are] ‹the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.›

  • Heb 12:12-13
    2 verses
    67%

    12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

    13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

  • 23 ‹The life is more than meat, and the body› [is more] ‹than raiment.›

  • 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

  • 19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,

  • 34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

  • 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.

  • 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.

  • 34 ‹The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when› [thine eye] ‹is evil, thy body also› [is] ‹full of darkness.›

  • 6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and [to] Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think [of men] above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

  • 6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

  • Jas 2:15-16
    2 verses
    66%

    15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

    16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be [ye] warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit?

  • 12 ¶ The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

  • Matt 5:29-30
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    66%

    29 ‹And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast› [it] ‹from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not› [that] ‹thy whole body should be cast into hell.›

    30 ‹And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast› [it] ‹from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not› [that] ‹thy whole body should be cast into hell.›

  • 24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for you.

  • 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity [her].

  • 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

  • 6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

  • 22 ‹The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.›

  • 17 For we [being] many are one bread, [and] one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

  • 1 ¶ But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

  • 21 And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • 19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

  • 7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.