1 Corinthians 12:17
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for 1 Corinthians 12:17 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
1 Corinthians 12:17 is a verse from the book of 1 Corinthians in the New Testament. The KJV reads: "If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?" Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
1 Corinthians 12:17 — KJV
“If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?”
— 1 Corinthians 12:17 (KJV)
1 Corinthians 12:17 in Context — About the Book of 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians is pastoral surgery on a gifted, divided, messy church — addressing factions, immorality, lawsuits, worship chaos, and doubts about resurrection. It contains the love chapter read at countless weddings and the Bible's fullest teaching on spiritual gifts and the resurrection body.
Cross-References for 1 Corinthians 12:17
“And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had. body: Heb. flesh”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 12:17: whole, body, eye
“And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. offend...: or, do cause thee to offend”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 12:17: whole, body, eye
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 12:17: whole, body, eye
“But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 12:17: whole, body, eye
“The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 12:17: whole, body, eye
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