1 Corinthians 12:15 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹⁵ If the foot should say: Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: Is it therefore not of the Body?

⁸ The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us. ⁹ And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees? ¹⁰ And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us. ¹¹ And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees? ¹² And the trees said to the vine: Come thou and reign over us. ¹³ And it answered them: Can I forsake my wine, that cheereth God and men, and be promoted among the other trees? ¹⁴ And all the trees said to the bramble: Come thou and reign over us. ¹⁵ And it answered them: If, indeed, you mean to make me king, come ye, and rest under my shadow: but if you mean it not, let fire come out from the bramble, and devour the cedars of Libanus.

⁹ And Joas, king of Israel, sent again to Amasias, king of Juda, saying: A thistle of Libanus sent to a cedar tree, which is in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And the beasts of the forest, that are in Libanus, passed, and trod down the thistle.