1 Corinthians 12:17
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
1 Corinthians 12:17 in other translations
| BSB | If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? |
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| WEB | If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be? |
| ASV | If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? |
| YLT | If the whole body were an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling? |
| DARBY | If the whole body were an eye, where the hearing? if all hearing, where the smelling? |
| BBE | If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling? |
| Webster | If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? |
What does 1 Corinthians 12:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Corinthians 12:12-26
Christ and his church form one body, as Head and members. Christians become members of this body by baptism. The outward rite is of Divine institution; it is a sign of the new birth, and is called therefore the washing of regeneration, Tit 3:5. But it is by the Spirit, only by the renewing of the Holy Ghost, that we are made members of Christ's body. And by communion with Christ at the Lord's supper, we are…
1 Corinthians 12:17 in the original Greek
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Cross references for 1 Corinthians 12:17
- Psalms 139:13-16
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
- Psalms 94:9
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
- 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.
- 1 Corinthians 12:29
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
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Context
- 1 Corinthians 12:16
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?
- 1 Corinthians 12:17
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
- 1 Corinthians 12:18
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
1 Corinthians 12:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si todo el cuerpo fuese ojo, ¿dónde estaría el oído? Si todo fuese oído, ¿dónde estaría el olfato? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Si le corps tout entier était œil, où serait l’ouïe? Si tout était ouïe, où serait l’odorat? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn der ganze Leib Auge wäre, wo wäre das Gehör? wenn ganz Gehör, wo der Geruch? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si totum corpus oculus: ubi auditus? Si totum auditus: ubi odoratus? |