17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
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And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. …
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-26)The apostle here makes out the truth of what was above asserted, and puts the gifted men among the Corinthians in mind of their duty, by comparing the church of Christ to a human body. I. By telling us that one body may have many members, and that the many members of the same body make but one body (1 Cor. 12:12): As the body is one, and hath many members, and all members of that one body, being m…
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