1 Corinthians 12:17

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

1 Corinthians 12:21

And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee, 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 do miracles?

Proverbs 20:12

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

Psalm 94:9

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

1 Samuel 9:9

(Formerly 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 formerly called a Seer.)

1 Corinthians 12:16

And if the ear should say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body.

1 Corinthians 12:18

But now God has placed the parts, each one of them, in the body just as he intended.