1 Corinthians 12:16
If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body.
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Referenced Verses
- Rom 12:3 : 3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
- Rom 12:10 : 10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
- 1 Cor 12:22 : 22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
- Phil 2:3 : 3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
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- 1 Cor 12:14-152 verses93%
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot would say, "Because I'm not the hand, I'm not part of the body," it is not therefore not part of the body.
- 1 Cor 12:17-2711 verses90%
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.
19 If they were all one member, where would the body be?
20 But now they are many members, but one body.
21 The eye can't tell the hand, "I have no need for you," or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you."
22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
23 Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety;
24 whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,
25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
26 When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
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12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
- Rom 12:4-52 verses76%
4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,
5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
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22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
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34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
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9 He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?
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23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror;
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19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.
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26 saying, 'Go to this people, and say, In hearing, you will hear, But will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, But will in no way perceive.
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12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.
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16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"
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16 "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
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13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, And will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, And will in no way perceive:
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6 They have ears, but they don't hear; They have noses, but they don't smell;
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29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
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47 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,
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15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
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18 Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember?
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9 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.
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18 Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.
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11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it commended me:
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21 Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:
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11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
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16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
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3 The eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.
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4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?
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16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it a communion of the body of Christ?
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9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, But don't understand; And you see indeed, But don't perceive.'
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9 If your eye causes you to stumble, 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 the Gehenna{or, Hell} of fire.
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16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
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6 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I forbear, so that no man may account of me above that which he sees in me, or hears from me.
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11 If then I don't know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.
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16 and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
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35 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised?" and, "With what kind of body do they come?"
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47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."