1 Corinthians 12:16
1 Corinthians 12:14-18 The Message (MSG)
I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn’t just a single part blown up into something huge. It’s all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, “I’m not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don’t belong to this body,” would that make it so? If Ear said, “I’m not beautiful like Eye, transparent and expressive; I don’t deserve a place on the head,” would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it.
1 Corinthians 12:16 King James Version (KJV)
And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
1 Corinthians 12:16 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.
1 Corinthians 12:16 New Century Version (NCV)
The ear might say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not part of the body.” But saying this would not stop the ear from being a part of the body.
1 Corinthians 12:16 American Standard Version (ASV)
And 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.
1 Corinthians 12:16 New King James Version (NKJV)
And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?
1 Corinthians 12:16 Amplified Bible (AMP)
If the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” is it not on the contrary still a part of the body?
1 Corinthians 12:16 New Living Translation (NLT)
And if the ear says, “I am not part of the body because I am not an eye,” would that make it any less a part of the body?
1 Corinthians 12:16 The Passion Translation (TPT)
And if the ear were to say, “Since I’m not an eye, I’m not really a part of the body,” it’s forgetting that it is still an important part of the body.