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1 Corinthians 12:13

Were we all baptized into one body

(ημεις παντες εις εν σωμα εβαπτισθημεν). First aorist passive indicative of βαπτιζω and so a reference to a definite past event with each of them of different races, nations, classes, when each of them put on the outward badge of service to Christ, the symbol of the inward changes already wrought in them by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 3:27; Romans 6:2).And were all made to drink of one Spirit

(κα παντες εν πνευμα εποτισθημεν). First aorist passive indicative of ποτιζω, old verb, to give to drink. The accusative εν πνευμα is retained in the passive as often with verbs that in the active take two accusatives. The reference is to a definite act in the past, probably to the inward experience of the Holy Spirit symbolized by the act of baptism.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Corinthians 12:13. _FOR BY ONE SPIRIT ARE WE ALL BAPTIZED_, c.] As the body of man, though composed of many members, is informed and influenced by one soul so the Church of Christ, which is h...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR BY ONE SPIRIT - That is, by the agency or operation of the same Spirit, the Holy Spirit, we have been united into one body. The idea here is the same as that presented above 1 Corinthians 12:7, 1...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE CONFESSION OF THE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ARE. were. BAPTIZED. App-115. It is the Lord who baptizes in _pneuma hagion._ See John 1:33. Note that "by" is "in" (Greek. _en)_ and "Spirit" has no art. INTO. App-104. GENTILES. Greeks. BOND. sl...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For by one Spirit_ Literally, IN ONE SPIRIT, i.e. in virtue of His operation. _are we all baptized_ Literally, WERE WE ALL BAPTIZED. All is the work of the Holy Spirit the first arresting of the thou...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    COMPARISON OF THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE UNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    13. [εἰς] before ἛΝ ΠΝΕΥ͂ΜΑ, rec. with E and Vulg. (auth.). Omit א(A)BCDFG Vetus Lat. Peshito, and some copies of Vulg. Some later MSS. have πόμα for πνεῦμα. 13. ἘΝ ἙΝῚ ΠΝΕΎΜΑΤΙ. Literally, IN ONE SP...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΚΑΊ ΓΆΡ (G1473; G3956) ибо даже, и, даже (BD, 236). ΗΜΕΊΣ ΠΆΝΤΕΣ все мы. Павел включает себя в число верующих (_см._ Samuel Byrskog, "Co-Senders, Co-Authors and Paul's Use of the First Person Plural...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    12:13 of] (b-6) Or 'For also by,' _ en_ ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    καὶ γὰρ ἐν ἑβὶ Πνεύματι κ. τ. λ.: “For indeed in _one_ Spirit we _all_ into _one_ body were baptized whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or freemen and we _all_ of _one_ Spirit were made to drink,...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    § 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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For by one Spirit are we all baptized into (n) one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to (o) drink into one Spirit. (n) To become one body wi...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “And indeed, by being baptized by one Spirit, we have all become one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free.” The καὶ γάρ, _and indeed_, relates to the last words of the foregoing verse:...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR BY ONE SPIRIT ARE WE ALL BAPTIZED,.... This is to be understood not of water baptism; for the apostle says not in one, and the same water, but "by", or "in" one Spirit, are we all baptized; the ba...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether _we be_ Jews or Gentiles, whether _we be_ bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. Ver. 13. _For by one Spirit, &c._...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    BY ONE SPIRIT; the Holy Ghost. TO DRINK INTO ONE SPIRIT; or, to drink of one Spirit. By his operation on our hearts, we become united in spirit to Christ the head and to one another as members of his...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    FOR BY ONE SPIRIT ARE WE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY, WHETHER WE BE JEWS OR GENTILES, WHETHER WE BE BOND OR FREE; AND HAVE BEEN ALL MADE TO DRINK INTO ONE SPIRIT....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The body of Christ and its members:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    GENTILES: _ Gr._ Greeks...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The apostle proveth the oneness of the church, as the body of Christ, from the same sacraments of the New Testament instituted for all Christians, and wherein they jointly partake. He saith, we are BA...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit. [Paul here proves the unity of the church by the method of...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Corinthians 12:13 For G1063 G2532 by G1722 one G1520 Spirit G4151 we G2249 were G907 all G3956 bapti

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    'For in one Spirit were we all baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free, and were all made to drink of one Spirit.' Again note the continued emphasis on the one Spirit (see...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    1 Corinthians 12:13. FOR IN (OR ‘BY') ONE SPIRIT WERE WE ALL BAPTISED INTO ONE BODY... AND WERE ALL MADE TO DRINK OF [1] ONE SPIRIT. The figure of “drinking” of the Spirit may have been suggested by t...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 12:13 Regenerating Baptism. As there is one Holy Ghost, so there is one only visible body of Christians which Almighty God "knows by name" and one baptism which admits men into it. This...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    IN THE SAME WAY. That the body is the sum of all the parts. HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO THE ONE BODY. The point is, that in spite of our differences of race, nationality, and social status, we all become...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    FOR BY ONE SPIRIT WE ARE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY. OF UNION WITH CHRIST Consider-- I. How Christ’s redemption is applied to a sinner. By uniting the sinner to Christ (1 Corinthians 1:30). Men must...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 12:13 IN ONE SPIRIT WE WERE ALL BAPTIZED. Like the other “baptism in the Holy Spirit” passages in the NT (Matthew 3:11;...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

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  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 12:1.—1 Corinthians 14:1.—ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:2; 1 Corinthians 7:21; 1 Corinthians 7:22; 1 Peter 3:21;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Made to drink [ε π ο τ ι σ θ η μ ε ν]. The verb means originally to give to drink, from which comes the sense of to water or irrigate. The former is invariably the sense in the gospels and Revelation;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For by that one Spirit, which we received in baptism, we are all united in one body. Whether Jews or gentiles — Who are at the greatest distance from each other by nature. Whether slaves or freemen —...

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