If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
King Jehoash of Israel sent word to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ but a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thornbush.
Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many.
And if the ear would 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.