A moment in scripture
1 Corinthians 12:16
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And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Corinthians 12:14
For the body is not one member, but many.
- 1 Corinthians 12:15
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
- 1 Corinthians 12:17
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
- 1 Corinthians 12:18
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.