1 Corinthians 12:14-23

14A person's body does not have only one part. It has many parts.

15If the foot could speak, it might say, ‘I am not a hand, so I do not belong to this body.’ But what it says makes no difference. It is still a part of the body.

16If the ear could speak, it might say, ‘I am not an eye, so I do not belong to this body.’ But what it says makes no difference. It still belongs to the body.

17If the whole body was an eye, the body would not hear anything. If the whole body was an ear, it would not recognize different smells.

18But God has decided where each different part of our body should be.

19If our body was all the same part, it would not be a proper body.

20But as it is, a body has many parts. It is still only one whole body.

21For that reason, the eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I do not need you.’ And the head cannot say to the feet, ‘I do not need you.’

22No. Even the parts of a body that seem to be weaker are very necessary.

23Think about the parts of our body that are not very special. We dress them carefully! And we take special care of those parts that we do not want people to see.