1 Corinthians 12:17

English Standard Version 2016

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?

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The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?

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

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

(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for today’s “prophet” was formerly called a seer.)

And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.