¹⁵ If the foot says, “Since I’m not a hand, I’m not part of the body,” that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it? ¹⁶ And if the ear says, “Since I’m not an eye, I’m not part of the body,” that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it? ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body^[a] were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? ¹⁸ But now God has arranged the parts, every one of them, in the body according to his plan.^{[b] 19} Now if all of it were one part, there wouldn’t be a body, would there? ²⁰ So there are many parts, but one body.

²¹ The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” or the head to the feet, “I don’t need you.”