1 Corinthians 12:21
Good News Translation
So then, the eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" Nor can the head say to the feet, "Well, I don't need you!"

New Revised Standard Version
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

Contemporary English Version
That's why the eyes cannot say they don't need the hands. That's also why the head cannot say it doesn't need the feet.

New American Bible
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I do not need you.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Numbers 10:31,32 And he said: Do not leave us: for thou knowest in what places we should encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be our guide. . . .

1 Samuel 25:32 And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech:

Ezra 10:1-5 Now when Esdras was thus praying, and beseeching, and weeping, and lying before the temple of God, there was gathered to him of Israel an exceeding great assembly of men and women and children, and the people wept with much lamentation. . . .

Nehemiah 4:16-21 And it came to pass from that day forward, that half of their young men did the work, and half were ready for to fight, with spears, and shields, and bows, and coats of mail, and the rulers were behind them in all the house of Juda. . . .

Job 29:11 The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:

Context
The Body of Christ
20But now there are many members indeed, yet one body. 21And 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. 22Yea, much, more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body are more necessary…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 12:20
But now there are many members indeed, yet one body.

1 Corinthians 12:22
Yea, much, more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body are more necessary

1 Corinthians 12:20
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