1 Corinthians 12:19
1 Corinthians 12:19 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
If they were all one member, where would the body be?
1 Corinthians 12:19-24 The Message (MSG)
But I also want you to think about how this keeps your significance from getting blown up into self-importance. For no matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are a part of. An enormous eye or a gigantic hand wouldn’t be a body, but a monster. What we have is one body with many parts, each its proper size and in its proper place. No part is important on its own. Can you imagine Eye telling Hand, “Get lost; I don’t need you”? Or, Head telling Foot, “You’re fired; your job has been phased out”? As a matter of fact, in practice it works the other way—the “lower” the part, the more basic, and therefore necessary. You can live without an eye, for instance, but not without a stomach. When it’s a part of your own body you are concerned with, it makes no difference whether the part is visible or clothed, higher or lower. You give it dignity and honor just as it is, without comparisons. If anything, you have more concern for the lower parts than the higher. If you had to choose, wouldn’t you prefer good digestion to full-bodied hair?
1 Corinthians 12:18-19 New Century Version (NCV)
If each part of the body were the same part, there would be no body. But truly God put all the parts, each one of them, in the body as he wanted them.
1 Corinthians 12:19 American Standard Version (ASV)
And if they were all one member, where were the body?
1 Corinthians 12:19 New International Version (NIV)
If they were all one part, where would the body be?
1 Corinthians 12:19 New King James Version (NKJV)
And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
1 Corinthians 12:19 Amplified Bible (AMP)
If they all were a single organ, where would [the rest of] the body be?
1 Corinthians 12:19 New Living Translation (NLT)
How strange a body would be if it had only one part!