Verse 17

If 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?

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 9:9 : 9 (Now it used to be in Israel that whenever someone went to inquire of God he would say,“Come on, let’s go to the seer.” For today’s prophet used to be called a seer.)
• Ps 94:9 : 9 Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?
• Ps 139:13-16 : 13 Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly; 15 my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.
• Prov 20:12 : 12 The ear that hears and the eye that sees– the LORD has made them both.
• 1 Cor 12:21 : 21 The 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.”
• 1 Cor 12:29 : 29 Not all are apostles, are they? Not all are prophets, are they? Not all are teachers, are they? Not all perform miracles, do they?