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ARE ALL APOSTLES? ... - These questions imply, with strong emphasis,
that it could not be, and ought not to be, that there should be
perfect equality of endowment. It was not a matter of fact that all...
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2. THE BODY AND THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY
CHAPTER 12
_ 1. Concerning spiritual manifestations and diversities of gifts. (1
Corinthians 12:1 .)_
2. The Body and its members. (1 Corinthians 12:12 .)
In...
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Paul now elaborates an illustration from the body and its members.
Here we have organic unity with diversity of function and
interdependence of the whole and its parts, interdependence also of
the par...
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THE CONFESSION OF THE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)...
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INTERPRET. Greek. _diermeneuo._ See Acts 9:36....
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Comparison of the Unity of the Body and the Unity of the Christian
Church
12. _For as the body is one, and hath many members_ This simile is a
very common one. It is used on several occasions by the A...
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COMPARISON OF THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE UNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH...
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_MEMBERS THAT LOVE ONE ANOTHER 1 CORINTHIANS 12:27-31:_ In the close
of this chapter we will see the application Paul made concerning the
spiritual gifts given in the one body. The church is composed...
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ΔΙΕΡΜΗΝΕΎΟΥΣΑ _praes. ind. act. от_
ΔΙΕΡΜΗΝΕΎΩ (G1329) переводить, толковать....
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Maintaining the Unity of the Church_ (12-31)
_Text_
1 Corinthians 12:12-31. For as the body is one, and hath many members,
and all the members of the body, being many, are one...
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_HAVE ALL THE GIFTS OF HEALING? DO ALL SPEAK WITH TONGUES? DO ALL
INTERPRET?_
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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13 The body of Jesus, or of the Lord, denotes His physical frame. The
body of Christ, however, is quite a distinct thought. Christ, or the
Anointed, is a title rather than a name. It suggests official...
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_(E) SPIRITUAL GIFTS_
In the early Church various powers, faculties, and graces were
bestowed on individual Christians by the Holy Spirit. Some of these
were distinctly miraculous, such as prophecy,...
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SERVANTS OF CHRIST
1 CORINTHIANS
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 12
*SPIRITUAL GIFTS 12:1-31
1. JESUS IS *LORD 12:1-3
V1 Now about the *Holy Spirit’s gifts, *brothers and *sisters, I do
not want to leave...
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CHAPTER 18
CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS
This Epistle is well fitted to disabuse our minds of the idea that the
primitive Church was in all respects superior to the Church of our own
day. We turn page a...
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1 Corinthians 12:21-31 _a_. § 41. THE MUTUAL DEPENDENCE OF THE BODY'S
MEMBERS. Multiformity, it has been shown, is of the essence of organic
life. But the variously endowed members, being needful to t...
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EACH CONTRIBUTING HIS PART
1 Corinthians 12:20
The hand and the foot obviously stand in need of each other; but the
same interdependence marks the feebler and humbler parts of our frame.
Indeed, it...
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Now the apostle turned from the corrective section of his letter to
the constructive as he proceeded to deal with the spiritualities which
negative the carnalities. These are those of the unifying Spi...
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Division Is Undesirable
Clearly, the facts Paul presented proved God created the body in such
a way that division is undesirable. Every member of the physical body
feels for the other members. If one...
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“Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all
powers? 30. Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues?
do all interpret?” God has given to believers a certain spiritual
e...
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(27) Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. (28)
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily
prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of
heal...
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As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle
give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle
speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
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The other branch of the truth, in reference to the assembly of God in
general and to the assemblies, is the presence and the gifts of the
Holy Ghost. These, as well as the Lord's supper, are in connec...
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HAVE ALL THE GIFTS OF HEALING?.... No; when these gifts were in being,
all had them not. When anointing with oil, in order to heal the sick,
was in use, it was only performed by the elders of the chur...
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_And God hath set in the church first apostles_ Who planted the gospel
in the heathen nations, being honoured with an office of the highest
distinction, and furnished with endowments peculiar to thems...
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These were different offices which God established in the churches at
first; referred to in verse 1 Corinthians 12:5.
APOSTLES; men who had seen Christ after his resurrection, and were
commissioned b...
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The spiritual meaning of the comparison:...
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The Lord's supper has been first considered, being the most important
of all gatherings, because it is for the united expression of the
affections of the saints toward Him. Now ministry toward the sai...
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HAVE ALL GIFTS OF HEALINGS? DO ALL SPEAK WITH TONGUES? DO ALL
INTERPRET?
Grammatically, each question demands. negative answer.
_ Point to Note:_
Even in the First Century, when the miraculous gift...
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27-31 Contempt, hatred, envy, and strife, are very unnatural in
Christians. It is like the members of the same body being without
concern for one another, or quarrelling with each other. The proud,
c...
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SEE POOLE ON "1 CORINTHIANS 12:29...
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have all gifts of hearings? do all speak with tongues? do all
interpret? [Paul here completes his analogy by showing that the gifts
bestowed upon individuals in the church are as diverse and variant a...
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1 Corinthians 12:30 all G3956 have G3361 G2192 (G5719) gifts G5486
healings G2386 all G3956 speak G3361 G2980 (G5719) tongues G1100 Do
G3361 all G3956 interpret G1329 (G5719)...
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SPIRITUAL GIFTS FOR THE WELL-BEING OF CHRIST AND HIS BODY
(12:1-14:33).
Paul now begins his reply to their question about spiritual gifts
('concerning spiritual things') and immediately gives an init...
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1 Corinthians 12:29-30. ARE ALL APOSTLES, etc. If not, then why
suppose that all possess and were intended to exercise every gift, or
imagine that this would benefit the Church?...
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DO ALL INTERPRET?
(μη παντες διερμηνευουσιν?). He adds this query
to the list in 1 Corinthians 12:28, but it is in 1 Corinthians 12:10....
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1 Corinthians 12:1. _Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would
not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away
unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led._
Although the mem...
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CONTENTS: Spiritual gifts in the Body of Christ, for ministry and
worship.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Paul.
CONCLUSION: The Body of Christ in the world is for the service for,
and manifest...
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1 Corinthians 12:1. _Now concerning spiritual gifts,_ and gifts
promised to old men, to young men, and to handmaids, according to Joel
2:28, I would now speak, in the third part of this epistle, and
a...
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THEY ARE NOT ALL. Paul once again shows the wide variety of abilities,
and the fact that each has his own special part to play in the _body._...
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_Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you
ignorant._
SPIRITUAL GIFTS
The particular gifts to which St. Paul was referring were not exactly
as a whole like anything that is to be...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 12:1 Some Corinthian Christians
seem to have been creating divisions over spiritual gifts. Paul’s
use of the body analogy in 1 Corinthians 12:12 implies that they h...
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CHAPTER 12
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
In this and the two following Chapter s S. Paul discusses Christian
gifts and graces. In this chapter he points out
I. That gifts are variously distributed by the...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
1 Corinthians 12:1.—GIFTS is a translators’ supplement; right in
fact, as 1 Corinthians 12:4 show; slightly too precise in word. Almost
certainly _neuter_, and so very general, “_spi...
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EXPOSITION
1 Corinthians 12:1.—1 Corinthians 14:1.—ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND
THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE ABUSE OF THE "GIFT OF TONGUES."
1 CORINTHIANS 12:1
_On spiritual gifts in general._
1 COR...
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Now concerning the spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you be
ignorant (1 Corinthians 12:1).
An interesting statement of Paul, because I think that in the church
one of the areas where the gr...
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CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS
1 Corinthians 12:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. A contrast between the spiritual and the carnal in Abram and Lot
(Genesis 18:1 and Genesis 19:1).
2. A contrast between the spir...