1 Corinthians 12:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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 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.

1 Corinthians 12:18

But as it is, God arranged the organs 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 miracles?

1 Samuel 9:9

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