1 Corinthians 12:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? ”

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If the whole body ... - The idea in this verse is, that all the parts of the body are useful in their proper place, and that it would be as absurd to require or expect that all the members of the...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(11) If the whole body [were] an eye, where [were] the hearing? If the whole [were] hearing, where [were] the smelling? (11) Again speaking to them, he shows them that if that should come to pass wh...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Paul now elaborates an illustration from the body and its members. Here we have organic unity with diversity of function and interdependence of the whole and its parts, interdependence also of the pa...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

If . App-118. smelling . Greek. osphresis. Only here.
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

17. If the whole body were an eye He sets aside a foolish aiming at equality, by showing the impossibility of it. “If all the members,” says he, “desire the honor that belongs to the eye,...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

If the whole body were an eye.— The Apostle by this intends probably to insinuate, that were there no other gifts in the church but those which they so much extolled in some of their teachers, it w...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? Superior as the eye is, it would not do if it were the sole member.
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

(e) Spiritual Gifts In the early Church various powers, faculties, and graces were bestowed on individual Christians by the Holy Spirit. Some of these were distinctly miraculous, such as prophec...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

If the whole body were an eye. — Here is shown how absurd it would be for the body to be merely one member, and in 1 Corinthians 12:19 is shown the converse absurdity of the members losing their...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 18 CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS This Epistle is well fitted to disabuse our minds of the idea that the primitive Church was in all respects superior to the Church of our own day. We turn pa...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Many Members in One Body 1 Corinthians 12:12-19 The use of gifts must never be dictated by personal ambition or the desire for selfish gain. As every member of the physical body is united to th...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Now the apostle turned from the corrective section of his letter to the constructive as he proceeded to deal with the spiritualities which negative the carnalities. These are those of the unifying Sp...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(12) For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. (13) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whethe...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If the whole body were an eye ,.... And nothing else, where were the hearing ? there would be no ear, and so no sense of hearing: and if the whole were hearing: or only consisted of a member capab...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? Ver. 17. If the whole body, &c. ] It is proper to God to be πανοφθαλμος, all...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For the body is not one member, but many All of which are necessary, that the various sorts of offices belonging to the body may be all performed: thus there must be different gifts and offices in...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The Lord's supper has been first considered, being the most important of all gatherings, because it is for the united expression of the affections of the saints toward Him. Now ministry toward the sa...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Union Recommended. A. D. 57. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the m...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

There are several actions to be performed by the body of a man, either for the support and the upholding of it in life, or for the accommodation of it while it lives; seeing, hearing, and smelling (w...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Spiritual Gifts For The Well-being of Christ and His Body (12:1-14:33). Paul now begins his reply to their question about spiritual gifts ('concerning spiritual things') and immediately gives an i...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 12:1 .— Gifts is a translators’ supplement; right in fact, as 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 show; slightly too precise in word. Almost certainly neuter , and so very gene...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:1-2 . Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. Although th...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 12:1 . Now concerning spiritual gifts, and gifts promised to old men, to young men, and to handmaids, according to Joel 2:28 , I would now speak, in the third part of this epistle,...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Spiritual gifts The particular gifts to which St. Paul was referring were not exactly as a whole like anything that is t...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 12:1-46 .— 1 Corinthians 14:1-46 .— ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS , AND THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE ABUSE OF THE " GIFT OF TONGUES ." 1 Corinthi...
1 Corinthians 12:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The body of Christ and its members:
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 12:21 ; 1 Corinthians 12:29 ; 1 Samuel 9:9 ; Proverbs 20:12 ; Psalms 139:13-16 ; Psalms 94:9
1 Corinthians 12:17 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Concerning Spiritual Gifts 1 Corinthians 12:1-31 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A contrast between the spiritual and the carnal in Abram and Lot ( Genesis 18:1-33 and Genesis 19:1-38 ). 2. A con...

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 12:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 12:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Corinthians 12:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 12:17 - Wells of Living Water Commentary