1st Corinthians Chapter 12 verse 17 Holy Bible
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
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If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?
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If the whole body [were] an eye, where the hearing? if all hearing, where the smelling?
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If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
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If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
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If the whole body `were' an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - If the whole body were an eye, etc. In the body there is between the members an identity of common interest and a perfection of separate functions. All are not equal in strength and delicacy, but each is happy, and each is necessary to the well being of all. There could be no better image of the ideal relation of Christians to each other and to the Church.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) If the whole body were an eye.--Here is shown how absurd it would be for the body to be merely one member, and in 1Corinthians 12:19 is shown the converse absurdity of the members losing their individuality. There is a corporate body composed of divers members. That is the difference between a dead machine and a living organism.
