16And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.


In Context

13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free--and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

14 Now the body is not made up of one part but of many.

15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.

16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.

17 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?

18 But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.

1st Corinthians 12:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:16And if the ear should say, because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body ?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16And if the ear say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, is it on account of this not indeed of the body?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16If 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16and if the ear may say, 'Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?