1 Corinthians 12:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

1 Corinthians 12:17 Cross References

Psalm 94:9

He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

Proverbs 20:12

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, The LORD hath made even both of them.

1 Corinthians 12:16

And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.

1 Corinthians 12:18

But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him.

1 Corinthians 12:21

And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or 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? are all workers of miracles?

1 Samuel 9:9

(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)