16 And if the ear were to say, “Because I am not an eye, I don't belong to the body,” that would not keep it from being a part of the body.
17 If the whole body were just an eye, how could it hear? And if it were only an ear, how could it smell?
18 As it is, however, God put every different part in the body just as he wanted it to be.
19 There would not be a body if it were all only one part!
20 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!”
22 On the contrary, we cannot do without the parts of the body that seem to be weaker;