If the foot should 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.
And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife’; and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.
For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
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.