17. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
18. But now God has set the members each one of them in the body, as it has pleased him.
19. And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
20. But now they are indeed many members, yet but one body.
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.
22. For those members of the body, which seem to be weaker, are much more necessary;
23. and those members of the body which we think to be more vile, these we dress with more abundant honour; and those in us who are more indecent have more honesty.
24. For those in us who are more honest need nothing, but God has ordered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that one which lacked,
25. that there should be no contradiction in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.