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1 Corinthians 12:17
1 Corinthians 12:17 is verse 17 of 1 Corinthians chapter 12, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
King James Version
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
World English Bible
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
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1 Corinthians 12:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 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.
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.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
18 But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.
19 If they were all one part, where would the body be?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Corinthians 12:21The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”
1 Corinthians 12:29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
1 Samuel 9:9(Formerly in Israel, a man on his way to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer.” For the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.)
Psalms 94:9He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?
Psalms 139:13For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalms 139:14I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
Psalms 139:15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Psalms 139:16Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
Proverbs 20:12Ears that hear and eyes that see— the LORD has made them both.