“ For the body is not one member, but many. ”
For the body ... - The body is made up of many members, which have various offices. So it is in the church. We are to expect the same variety there; and we are not to presume either that all will...
(9) For the body is not one member, but many. (9) He amplifies that which followed of the similitude, as if he should say, "The unity of the body is not prevented by this diversity of members, and f...
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...
For the body is not one member, but many. For the body is not one member - The mystical body, the Church, as well as the natural body, is composed of many members.
For the body is not one member, but many. Translate, For the body also.' The analogy of the body, not consisting exclusively of one, but of many members, illustrates the mutual dependence of t...
(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...
For the body is not one member, but many. — Here follows a series of suggestions as to the different parts of the body claiming independence of the body itself, which the nature of the case shows t...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
For the body is not one member ,.... Not only one; nor is anyone member the body, though ever so eminent, as the head or eye: thus the church of Christ is not one person only, or does not consist of...
For the body is not one member, but many. Ver. 14. Not one member, but many ] As man's body curiously wrought, and as it were by the book, Psalms 139:16 . Had God left out an eye or hand in his...
For the body is not one member, but many All of which are necessary, that the various sorts of offices belonging to the body may be all performed: thus there must be different gifts and offices in...
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...
Union Recommended. A. D. 57. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the m...
As the natural body is totum integrale, a whole consisting of many members; so the body spiritual, the mystical body of Christ, is not made up of one single member, but of many members.
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...
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 12:1-2 . 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 12:1 . 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,...
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...
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...
The body of Christ and its members:
1 Corinthians 12:12 ; 1 Corinthians 12:19 ; 1 Corinthians 12:27 ; 1 Corinthians 12:28 ; Ephesians 4:25
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...