1 Corinthians 12:17
Good News Translation
If the whole body were just an eye, how could it hear? And if it were only an ear, how could it smell?

New Revised Standard Version
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

Contemporary English Version
If our bodies were only an eye, we couldn't hear a thing. And if they were only an ear, we couldn't smell a thing.

New American Bible
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

Douay-Rheims Bible
If the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

1 Corinthians 12:21,29 And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need not thy help. Nor again the head to the feet: I have no need of you. . . .

1 Samuel 9:9 Now in time past in Israel, when a man went to consult God, he spoke thus: Come, let us go to the seer. For he that is now called a prophet, in time past was called a seer.

Psalm 94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?

Psalm 139:13-16 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother's womb. . . .

Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.

Context
The Body of Christ
16And if the ear should say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: Is it therefore not of the body? 17If the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18But now God hath set the members, every one of them, in the body as it hath pleased him.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 12:16
And if the ear should say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: Is it therefore not of the body?

1 Corinthians 12:18
But now God hath set the members, every one of them, in the body as it hath pleased him.

1 Corinthians 12:16
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