If the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy help; nor again the head to the feet: I have no need of you.
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all doctors?
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.
As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.
Now in time past, in Israel when a man went to consult God he spoke thus: Come, let us go to the seer. For he that is now called a prophet, in time past was called a seer.
And if the ear should say, because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
But now God hath set the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased him.