1 Corinthians 12:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And if the ear says,“Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 12:3 : 3 Conduct in Humility For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.
  • Rom 12:10 : 10 Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.
  • 1 Cor 12:22 : 22 On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

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  • 1 Cor 12:14-15
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    14For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

    15If the foot says,“Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

  • 1 Cor 12:17-27
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    17If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?

    18But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.

    19If they were all the same member, where would the body be?

    20So now there are many members, but one body.

    21The eye cannot say to the hand,“I do not need you,” nor in turn can the head say to the foot,“I do not need you.”

    22On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,

    23and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,

    24but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

    25so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have mutual concern for one another.

    26If one member suffers, everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored, all rejoice with it.

    27Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.

  • 1 Cor 12:12
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    12Different Members in One Body For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body– though many– are one body, so too is Christ.

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

    5so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

  • Matt 6:22-23
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    22“The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

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

  • Luke 11:34
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    34Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is diseased, your body is full of darkness.

  • Ps 94:9
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    9Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?

  • Jas 1:23
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    23For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.

  • Col 2:19
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    19He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

  • Acts 28:26
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    26when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

  • Prov 20:12
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    12The ear that hears and the eye that sees– the LORD has made them both.

  • Matt 13:16
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    16“But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.

  • Matt 13:13-14
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    13For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

    14And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

  • Ps 115:6
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    6ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell,

  • Matt 5:29
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    29If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

  • Mark 9:47
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    47If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out! It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,

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    15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

  • Mark 8:18
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    18Though you have eyes, don’t you see? And though you have ears, can’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

  • 1 Cor 14:9
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    9It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

  • Isa 42:18
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    18The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!

  • Job 29:11
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    11Job’s Benevolence“As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

  • Jer 5:21
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    21Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

  • Eph 4:16
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    16From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body builds itself up in love.

  • Isa 32:3
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    3Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.

  • 1 Cor 3:4
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    4For whenever someone says,“I am with Paul,” or“I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human?

  • 1 Cor 10:16
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    16Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

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    9He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’

  • Matt 18:9
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    9And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.

  • Rom 11:16
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    16If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.

  • 2 Cor 12:6
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    6For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,

  • 1 Cor 14:11
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    11If then I do not know the meaning of a language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.

  • Jas 2:16
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    16and one of you says to them,“Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?

  • 1 Cor 15:35
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    35The Resurrection Body But someone will say,“How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

  • John 8:47
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    47The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”