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1 Corinthians 12:17-24 Amplified Bible (AMP)

17. If the whole body were an eye, where [would be the sense of] hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where [would be the sense of] smell?

18. But as it is, God has placed and arranged the limbs and organs in the body, each [particular one] of them, just as He wished and saw fit and with the best adaptation.

19. But if [the whole] were all a single organ, where would the body be?

20. And now there are [certainly] many limbs and organs, but a single body.

21. And the eye is not able to say to the hand, I have no need of you, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

22. But instead, there is [absolute] necessity for the parts of the body that are considered the more weak.

23. And those [parts] of the body which we consider rather ignoble are [the very parts] which we invest with additional honor, and our unseemly parts and those unsuitable for exposure are treated with seemliness (modesty and decorum),

24. Which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so adjusted (mingled, harmonized, and subtly proportioned the parts of) the whole body, giving the greater honor and richer endowment to the inferior parts which lack [apparent importance],