1st Corinthians Chapter 12 verse 15 Holy Bible
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
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If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body.
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If the foot say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?
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If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
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If the foot would say, "Because I'm not the hand, I'm not part of the body," it is not therefore not part of the body.
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if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - If the foot shall say, etc. So Seneca says, "What if the hands should wish to injure the feet, or the eyes the hands? As all the members agree together because it is the interest of the whole that each should be kept safe, so men spare their fellow men because we are born for heaven, and society cannot be saved except by the love and protection of its elements" ('De Ira,' 2:31). And Marcus Aurelius: "We have been born for mutual help, like the feet, like the hands, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. To act in opposition to cue another is therefore contrary to nature" ('Enchir.,' 2:1). And Pope — "What if the foot, ordained the dust to tread,Or hand, to toil, aspired to be the head?What if the head, the eye, or ear repinedTo serve mere engines to the ruling mind?Just as absurd for any part to claimTo be another, in this general frame," etc.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) Is it therefore not of the body?--Better, It is not on that account not of the body; and so omit the note of interrogation in the subsequent passages of these verses also. The illustration is almost the same as that contained in Livy, ii. 32, the fable of the revolt of the limbs against the belly. Pope, in his Essay on Man (9), employs the same idea thus:--"What if the foot, ordain'd the dust to tread,Or hand, to toil, aspired to be the head?What if the head, the eye, or ear declinedTo serve mere engines to the ruling mind?Just as absurd for any part to claimTo be another in this general frame:Just as absurd to mourn the fate or painsThe great directing MIND OF ALL ordains.All are but parts of one stupendous whole,Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."
