Bible verse
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”
1 Corinthians 12:21 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 12.
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 members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.
19 If they were all one part, where would the body be?
20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”
22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23 and the parts we consider less honorable, we treat with greater honor. And our unpresentable parts are treated with special modesty,
24 whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,
25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its members should have mutual concern for one another.
KJV
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.
ASV
And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
ERV
And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
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