Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
17 If the whole body were just an eye, how could it hear? And if it were only an ear, how could it smell?
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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?
18 As it is, however, God put every different part in the body just as he wanted it to be.
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But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.
19 There would not be a body if it were all only one part!
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If they were all one part, where would the body be?
20 As it is, there are many parts but one body.
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As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 So then, the eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" Nor can the head say to the feet, "Well, I don't need you!"
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The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”
22 On the contrary, we cannot do without the parts of the body that seem to be weaker;
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On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23 and those parts that we think aren't worth very much are the ones which we treat with greater care; while the parts of the body which don't look very nice are treated with special modesty,
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and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty,
24 which the more beautiful parts do not need. God himself has put the body together in such a way as to give greater honor to those parts that need it.
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while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it,
25 And so there is no division in the body, but all its different parts have the same concern for one another.
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so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.
26 If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it; if one part is praised, all the other parts share its happiness.
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If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27 All of you are Christ's body, and each one is a part of it.
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Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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