21And 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah. …
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore. …
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
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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