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Your Unique Role is Essential
Paul uses the example of the ear feeling useless because it isn't an eye. Commentators explain this illustrates a crucial truth: the church, like a body, needs diversity to function. A body that was all eyes couldn't hear. Your specific gifts and function, even if they seem less prominent than others, are essential for the health of the whole church. Don't devalue your contribution just because it's different.
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1 Corinthians
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 12:16–17
19th Century
Preacher
And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 12:16
Paul now emphasizes the necessity of having diversity in a body for it to operate as one. Each part (such as the eye or the ear) must be willing to…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 12:16
17th Century
Pastor
And if the ear shall say
The organ that receives sounds, and can distinguish them, and in which member is placed the…
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Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 12:12–26
17th Century
Minister
Christ and His church form one body, as Head and members. Christians become members of this body by baptism. The outward rite is of divine institut…