For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
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Gill's Exposition
For our comely parts have no need,.... As the face, eyes, nose, lips, cheeks, &c. which stand in no need of an external covering, of any outward ornament: so such as are blessed with the bounties of…
Barnes' Notes
For our comely parts - The face, etc. “Have no need.” No need of clothing or ornament. But God hath tempered the body together - Literally, “mingled” or mixed; that is, has made to coalesce, or…
Adam Clarke
For our comely parts have no need - It would be easy to go into great detail in giving an anatomical description of the different members and parts to which the apostle refers, but it would not…
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…
Cambridge Bible
tempered So Wiclif. Disposed, Tyndale. Temperavit, Vulgate. Literally, mingled together.