1 Corinthians 12:17
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
Context
This verse from 1 Corinthians Chapter 12 connects to 7 cross-references. Spiritual gifts are given by the same Spirit for the common good. The body analogy: many members, one body. The eye cannot say to the hand 'I have no need of you.' God has arranged the members each as he …
Other Translations
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
If the whole body <FI>were<Fi> an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?
If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?
Cross References
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the …
(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to …
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in …
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.