14. For the body does not consist of one limb or organ but of many.
15. If the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I do not belong to the body, would it be therefore not [a part] of the body?
16. If the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I do not belong to the body, would it be therefore not [a part] of the body?
17. If the whole body were an eye, where [would be the sense of] hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where [would be the sense of] smell?
18. But as it is, God has placed and arranged the limbs and organs in the body, each [particular one] of them, just as He wished and saw fit and with the best adaptation.
19. But if [the whole] were all a single organ, where would the body be?
20. And now there are [certainly] many limbs and organs, but a single body.
21. And the eye is not able to say to the hand, I have no need of you, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
22. But instead, there is [absolute] necessity for the parts of the body that are considered the more weak.
23. And those [parts] of the body which we consider rather ignoble are [the very parts] which we invest with additional honor, and our unseemly parts and those unsuitable for exposure are treated with seemliness (modesty and decorum),