1 Corinthians 12:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles,c whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. ”

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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 w...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - 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 pa...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - 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...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

13. For we are all baptized by one Spirit. Here there is a proof brought forward from the effect of baptism. “We are,” says he, “engrafted by baptism into Christ’s body, so that we are...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1983 CHRISTIANS ONE IN HEART 1 Corinthians 12:13 . 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...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on 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. For by one Spirit are we all bapt...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For by one Spirit, &c.— "For all of us, who are endued with the gifts and graces of one and the self-same Spirit, ( 1 Corinthians 12:11 .) are thereby incorporated into one spiritual body, ac...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - 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...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

(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 prophec...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For. — Here follows an illustrative proof of the former statement. The human body is composed of many members, and so also is the spiritual body of Christ, which is His Church. To drink into one...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - 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 pa...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Many Members in One Body 1 Corinthians 12:12-19 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 th...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - 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 Sp...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - 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, whethe...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - 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, &...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - 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 Chr...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - L. 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 sa...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Union Recommended. A. D. 57. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the m...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 i...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 12:1 .— Gifts is a translators’ supplement; right in fact, as 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 show; slightly too precise in word. Almost certainly neuter , and so very gene...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - 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....
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:1-2 . 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 th...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - 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,...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - 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 t...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 12:1-46 .— 1 Corinthians 14:1-46 .— ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS , AND THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE ABUSE OF THE " GIFT OF TONGUES ." 1 Corinthi...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The body of Christ and its members:
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:2 ; 1 Corinthians 7:21 ; 1 Corinthians 7:22 ; 1 Peter 3:21 ; Acts 1:5 ; Colossians 1:27 ; Colossians 2:11 ; Colossians 2:12 ; Colossians 3:11 ; Ephesians 2:11-16 ; Ephesia...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Concerning Spiritual Gifts 1 Corinthians 12:1-31 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A contrast between the spiritual and the carnal in Abram and Lot ( Genesis 18:1-33 and Genesis 19:1-38 ). 2. A con...
1 Corinthians 12:13 - 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...

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 12:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 12:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Corinthians 12:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes