"If the whole body {were} an eye, where {were} the hearing? If the whole {were} hearing, where {were} the smelling?" — 1 Corinthians 12:17

1 Corinthians 12:17 · KJV

“If the whole body {were} an eye, where {were} the hearing? If the whole {were} hearing, where {were} the smelling?”

— 1 Corinthians 12:17

Verse 16

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?

Verse 18

But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

1 Corinthians 12 — Context

If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

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?

If the whole body {were} an eye, where {were} the hearing? If the whole {were} hearing, where {were} the smelling?

But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

And if they were all one member, where {were} the body?

Cross References

Psalms 139:13-16

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

Proverbs 20:12

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

1 Corinthians 12:21

And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

Psalms 94:9

He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

1 Corinthians 12:29

{Are} all apostles? {are} all prophets? {are} all teachers? {are} all workers of miracles? {workers...: or, powers?}

1 Samuel 9:9

(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for {he that is} now {called} a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)