1 Corinthians 12:17

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

If the whole body were an eye, how could it hear? If the whole body were an ear, how could it smell?

Cross References

1 Corinthians 12:16

And if the ear should say, “I am not part of the body because I am not the eye,” that does not mean it is not part of the body [does it?]

1 Corinthians 12:18

But the way it is, God has placed each individual part in the human body just as it pleased Him.

1 Corinthians 12:21

And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you,” or again, the head [cannot say] to the feet, “I do not need you.”

1 Corinthians 12:29

Are all [ministers in the church] apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all perform miracles?