1 Corinthians 12:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 9:9 : 9 (In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he who is now called a Prophet was before called a Seer.)
  • Ps 94:9 : 9 He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?
  • Ps 139:13-16 : 13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I will give thanks to you, For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. 15 My frame wasn't hidden from you, When I was made in secret, Woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there were none of them.
  • Prov 20:12 : 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.
  • 1 Cor 12:21 : 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."
  • 1 Cor 12:29 : 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?

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    11But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

    12For 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.

    13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

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

    15If 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.

    16If 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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    18But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

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

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

    21The 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."

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

    23Those 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;

    24whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,

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

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

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,

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    6They have ears, but they don't hear; They have noses, but they don't smell;

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    12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

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    16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"

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    7Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn't give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?

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

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