1 Corinthians 12:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where [would be the sense of] hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where [would be the sense of] smell?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, what would happen to the hearing? And if the whole body were an ear, what would happen to the sense of smell?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ If the whole body were the eye, how would it hear? If the whole were hearing, how would it smell?

1 Corinthians 12:17 Cross References

1 Corinthians 12:21

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

1 Corinthians 12:29

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work powerful deeds?

Proverbs 20:12

The hearing ear and the seeing eye— the Lord has made them both.

Psalm 94:9

He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?

1 Samuel 9:9

(Formerly in Israel, anyone who went to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for the one who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)

1 Corinthians 12:16

And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

1 Corinthians 12:18

But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.