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1 Corinthians 12:17
“If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?”
Verse in context — 1 Corinthians 12
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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 ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body.
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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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But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.
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If they were all one member, where would the body be?
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