The eye can’t tell the hand, “I have no need for you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need for you.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 12:21 in context
1 Corinthians 12:18–24
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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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But now they are many members, but one body.
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The eye can’t tell the hand, “I have no need for you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need for you.”
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No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
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Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant modesty,
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while our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,
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