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.
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Gill's Exposition
And the eye cannot say unto the hand,.... Every member of the natural body is useful and necessary. The eye, the seat of the sense of seeing, cannot say to the communicating and working hand,
I have…
Barnes' Notes
And the eye cannot say unto the hand ... - The hand in its place is as needful as the eye; and the feet as the head. Nay, the eye and the head could not perform their appropriate functions, or would…
Adam Clarke
And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee - The apostle goes on, with his principal object in view, to show that the gifts and graces with which their different teachers were…
The apostle here makes out the truth of what was above asserted, and puts the gifted men among the Corinthians in mind of their duty, by comparing the church of Christ to a human body.
I. By telling…
Comparison of the Unity of the Body and the Unity of the Christian Church
12. For as the body is one, and hath many members This simile is a very common one. It is used on several occasions by the…