1 Corinthians 12:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Sam 9:9 : 9 (Previously in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said thus, Come, let us go to the seer: for he who is now called a Prophet was previously 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 You have formed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed; and in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.
  • Prov 20:12 : 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made both of them.
  • 1 Cor 12:21 : 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; 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 the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

    12For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

    13For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

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

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

    16And if the ear says, 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 God has set the members, each one of them, in the body as He pleased.

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

    20But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.

    21And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

    22No, rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.

    23And those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow greater honor, and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty.

    24But our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacked,

    25that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

    26And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

    27Now you are the body of Christ and members individually.

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

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

  • Ps 115:6
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    6They have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell;

  • Prov 20:12
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    12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made 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 lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

    23But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

  • Mark 7:16
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    16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.

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    34The light of the body is the eye: therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is full of light; but when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

  • 1 Cor 14:7-10
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    7Even things without life, giving sound, whether pipe or harp, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or harped?

    8For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?

    9So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will speak into the air.

    10There are, perhaps, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without significance.

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    18Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?

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

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    47And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire;

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    19And not holding to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.

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    23Therefore, if the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?

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    29And if your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you: for it is better for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

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    9If anyone has an ear, let him hear.

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    17They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

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    16From whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

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    9He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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    15He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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    36If your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle gives you light.

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    23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;

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    18Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.

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    17For although we are many, we are one bread and one body: for we all partake of that one bread.

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    1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

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    9And if your eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

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    26saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive.