1 Corinthians 12:17

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 9:9 : 9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
  • Ps 94:9 : 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
  • Ps 139:13-16 : 13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. 15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
  • Prov 20:12 : 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
  • 1 Cor 12:21 : 21 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.
  • 1 Cor 12:29 : 29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

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    11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

    12For 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.

    13For 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.

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

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

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

  • 1 Cor 12:18-27
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    18But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

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

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

    21And 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.

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

    23And 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

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

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    6They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

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

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    9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

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

    23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

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    16If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

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    34The 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.

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    7And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

    8For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

    9So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

    10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.

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    18Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

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    16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

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    47And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:

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    9Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

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