Christ is like a single body. Paul uses the example of the human body to show the nature of Christ (and his church). The point is variety in unity. Diversification of function makes possible human life. The unity of the Church is the oneness of a living organism where each individual has his or her own unique function. No one has any right to be jealous of what anyone else can do; and without this ONE, the body is not complete.
Verse 1 Corinthians 12:12. _FOR AS THE BODY IS ONE_] Though the human body have many _members_, and though it be composed of a great variety of _parts_, yet it is but _one entire system_; every part a...
FOR AS THE BODY IS ONE - The general sentiment which the apostle had been illustrating and enforcing was, that all the endowments which were possessed in the church were the work of the same Holy Spir...
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...
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...
THE CONFESSION OF THE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)...
Just as the body is one, although it has many members, and just as all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by the one Spirit we have all been baptized i...
THAT ONE. The texts read "the". SO ALSO, &C. = so is Christ also. CHRIST. the Christ. App-98....
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...
COMPARISON OF THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE UNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH...
12. [τοῦ ἑνός] after σώματος, rec. with DE. Text אABCFG Vulg. Peshito. 12. ΚΑΘΆΠΕΡ ΓᾺΡ ΤῸ ΣΩ͂ΜΑ ἝΝ ἘΣΤΙΝ. This simile is a very common one. It is used on several occasions by the Apostle. See Romans 1...
_MANY MEMBERS IN ONE BODY 1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-14:_ The one body is the one church of Christ. (Ephesians 1:22-23; Ephesians 4:4) Paul used the human body to help us better understand the church
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Sagaciousness of Diversity (1 Corinthians 12:12-26) 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so i...
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...
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. Unity, not unvarying uniformity, is the law of God in grace as in n...
21 The phrase..the Lord's _ supper_ " is misleading. Supper denotes an _ evening _ meal, but the word here employed has no such significance, though its first observance was at night. The word denotes...
_(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, t...
ARE] i.e. constitute one body. SO ALSO _is_ CHRIST] Christ is regarded here as the personality whose body is the Church. He is so closely connected with the Church that He is almost identified with it...
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 leav...
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...
“The one Spirit,” the leading thought of § 39, suggests the similitude of “the body” for the Church (called in ch. 3 the _tillage, building, temple_ of God), since this is the seat of His multifarious...
§ 40. THE ONE BODY, OF MANY MEMBERS. The manifold graces, ministries, workings (1 Corinthians 12:4 ff.), that proceed from the action of the Holy Spirit in the Christian community, stand not only in c...
MANY MEMBERS IN ONE BODY 1 Corinthians 12:12 The use of gifts must never be dictated by personal ambition or the desire for selfish gain. As every member of the physical body is united to the head by...
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...
The Unity of the Body There is but one body. That body is the church. Paul told the Ephesian brethren, "There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling." Earlier...
(7) For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: (8) so also [is] (m) Christ. (7) He sets forth his former saying by a similitude take...
As the body is one, &c. From this comparison of the mystical body of Christ, that is, of his Church, to a man's natural body, he brings excellent instructions. 1. That as all members and parts, make u...
“For as the body is one, and hath many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body: so is it with the Christ.” The apostle has just stated a Divine fact, which is the secret of...
2. THE UNITY OF SPIRITUAL FORCES IN THEIR DIVERSITY. VERS. 4-12. The first and most profound diversity which strikes the mind as it contemplates the display of Divine power within the Church, is the d...
(12) For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. (13) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether...
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...
12._For as the body is one _He now derives a similitude from the human body, which he makes use of also in Romans 12:4; but it is for a different purpose, as I have already stated above. In that passa...
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...
FOR AS THE BODY IS ONE,.... That is, an human body; for of this the apostle speaks, and takes a simile, and forms a comparison from, showing the union among saints, and their mutual participation of t...
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also _is_ Christ. Ver. 12. _So also is Christ_] Mystical Christ, the Church. Christ t...
_For as the_ human _body is one, and_ yet _hath many members_ For different offices; _and all the members_, though many, constitute but _one body_ United in one well-regulated system; _so also is Chri...
SO ALSO IS CHRIST; the head of his spiritual body the church. All its members, like the different members of the human body, are united to one head, and should be, by mutual sympathy and affection, un...
The body of Christ and its members:...
FOR AS THE BODY IS ONE AND HATH MANY-MEMBERS, AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF THAT ONE BODY, BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY: SO ALSO IS CHRIST....
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...
FOR AS THE BODY IS ONE, AND HATH MANY MEMBERS, AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY, BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY; SO ALSO IS CHRIST. 'For' -'The "for" with which this sentence begins indicates that what fol...
12-26 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 institution; it is a sign of the new birth, and is cal...
For as it is in the body natural, the integral parts, or members of it, are MANY, yet _the body is_ but _one; _ so it is in the spiritual body, the church, which is that mystical body of which Christ...
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. [Paul here strikes a fatal blow at that pride which animated those who held...
1 Clement Let us take our body for an example.[162] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I The divine apostle writes accordingly respecting us: "For now we see as through a glass; "[218] Tertullian...
1 Corinthians 12:12 For G1063 as G2509 body G4983 is G2076 (G5748) one G1520 and G2532 has G2192 ...
'For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.' Paul here likens Christ and His people to a body with its many different p...
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 initi...
1 Corinthians 12:12. FOR AS THE BODY IS ONE, AND HATH MANY MEMBERS, AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY, [1] BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY; SO ALSO IS CHRIST who with the Church is an organic whole. [1] The r...
SO ALSO IS CHRIST (ουτως κα ο Χριστος). One would naturally expect Paul here to say ουτως κα το σωμα του Χριστου (so also is the body of Christ). He will later call Christ the Head of the Body the C...
1 Corinthians 12:12. _For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one b...
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...
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 manifesta...
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...
_For as the body is one, and hath many members … so also is Christ._ OF THE GREAT VARIETY OF MEN’S CHARACTERS IN THE CHURCH The law of variety in unity obtains-- I. In nature. 1. No two leaves of t...
_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...
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
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...
_For as the body is one._. _. so also is Christ._ As an animal body is one, as a man has but one body, so also has Christ one body, the Church, the members of which are many, whose head He is. 1. But...
_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, “_spir...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 12:1.—1 Corinthians 14:1.—ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE
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 gre...
1 Corinthians 10:17; 1 Corinthians 12:27; Colossians 1:18; Colossians 1:24;...
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
So is Christ — That is, the body of Christ, the church....
Here our apostle acquaints us that the intent and design of God in giving these various gifts, was the profit and edification of his church, which he compares to. body that has many members; for thoug...