1 Corinthians 12:17

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

Related Commentaries of 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 absur...
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,...
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 w...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

If . App-118. smelling . Greek. osphresis. Only here.
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...
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 the...
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 no...
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...
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 t...
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...
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...
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 t...
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 on...
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...
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, &a...
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:...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Union Recommended. A. D. 57. 12 For as the...
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 i...
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 ('concer...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

'For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, "Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body", it is not therefore not of the b...
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...
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 th...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:12-13 . 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...
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 wo...
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 w...
The Biblical Illustrator

For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body . Of union with Christ Consider-- I. How Christ’s redemption is applied to a sinner. By u...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The body of Christ and its members:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
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
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 ( Ge...

¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

Related Commentaries of 1 Corinthians 12:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:17