1 Corinthians 12:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

1 Corinthians 12:22 —

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Proverbs 14:28
In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Ecclesiastes 9:14-15
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: …
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. …
Ecclesiastes 5:9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
2 Corinthians 1:11
Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22. more feeble--more susceptible of injury: for example, the brain, the belly, the eye. Their very feebleness, so far from doing away with the need for them, calls forth our greater care for their preservation, as being felt “necessary.”