1 Corinthians 12:16

New American Bible - revised edition

Or if an ear should say, “Because I am not an eye I do not belong to the body,” it does not for this reason belong any less to the body.

Cross References

Romans 12:10

love one another with mutual affection; anticipate one another in showing honor.

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given to me I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than one ought to think, but to think soberly, each according to the measure of faith that God has apportioned.

1 Corinthians 12:15

If a foot should say, “Because I am not a hand I do not belong to the body,” it does not for this reason belong any less to the body.

1 Corinthians 12:17

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

1 Corinthians 12:22

Indeed, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are all the more necessary,

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves,