1 Corinthians 12:17

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 94:9

as in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tempted me; they tested me, though they had seen my works.

Proverbs 20:12

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

1 Corinthians 12:16

And if the ear were to say, "Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body," would it then not be of the body?

1 Corinthians 12:18

But instead, God has placed the parts, each one of them, in the body, just as it has pleased him.

1 Corinthians 12:21

And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need for your works." And again, the head cannot say to the feet, "You are of no use to me."

1 Corinthians 12:29

Are all Apostles? Are all Prophets? Are all Teachers?

1 Samuel 9:9

(In past times, in Israel, anyone going to consult God would speak in this way, "Come, and let us go to the seer." For one who is called a prophet today, in past times was called a seer.)