Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
New American Standard Bible
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
King James Version
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
Holman Bible
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
International Standard Version
If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
American Standard Version
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
Amplified
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole [body] were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
An Understandable Version
If the whole body were an eye, how could it hear? If the whole body were an ear, how could it smell?
Anderson New Testament
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
Bible in Basic English
If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?
Common New Testament
If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
Daniel Mace New Testament
if the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? if the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
Darby Translation
If the whole body were an eye, where the hearing? if all hearing, where the smelling?
Goodspeed New Testament
If all the body were eye, how would we hear? If it were all ear, how could we have a sense of smell?
John Wesley New Testament
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
Julia Smith Translation
If the whole body an eye, where the hearing If the whole hearing, where the smelling?
King James 2000
If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
Lexham Expanded Bible
If the whole body [were] an eye, where [would] the hearing [be]? If the whole [were] hearing, where [would] the sense of smell [be]?
Modern King James verseion
If all the body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If all hearing, where would be the smelling?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If all the body were an eye: where were then the ear? If all were hearing: where were the smelling?
Moffatt New Testament
If the body were all eye, where would hearing be? If the body were all ear, where would smell be?
Montgomery New Testament
If the whole body were an eye, where were hearing? If all were hearing, where were smelling?
NET Bible
If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?
New Heart English Bible
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
Noyes New Testament
If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
Sawyer New Testament
If the whole body was an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole was a hearing, where would be the smelling?
The Emphasized Bible
If, the whole body, were, an eye, where were the hearing? If, the whole were, hearing, where were, the smelling?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
If the whole body were eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
Twentieth Century New Testament
If all the body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If it were all hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
Webster
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
Weymouth New Testament
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the nostrils be?
Williams New Testament
If all the body were an eye, how could we hear? If all the body were an ear, how could we smell?
World English Bible
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
Worrell New Testament
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole body were hearing, where were the smelling?
Worsley New Testament
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? and if the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
Youngs Literal Translation
If the whole body were an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?
Themes
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 36 Translations in 1 Corinthians 12:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Unity In The Midst Of Diversity
16 And if the ear should say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has placed the parts, each one of them, in the body just as he intended.
Cross References
1 Samuel 9:9
(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer, for he who is now called a Prophet was formerly called a Seer.)
Psalm 94:9
He who planted the ear, shall he not hear? He who formed the eye, shall he not see?
Psalm 139:13-16
For thou formed my inward parts. Thou covered me in my mother's womb.
Proverbs 20:12
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, LORD has made even both of them.
1 Corinthians 12:21
And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
1 Corinthians 12:29
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all do miracles?