1 Corinthians 12:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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?

Cross References

Psalm 94:9

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

Proverbs 20:12

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

1 Corinthians 12:16

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.

1 Corinthians 12:18

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

1 Corinthians 12:21

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.”

1 Corinthians 12:29

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work powerful deeds?

1 Samuel 9:9

(Formerly in Israel, anyone who went to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for the one who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)