1 Corinthians 12:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. ”

• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Hath God set the members ... - God has formed the body, with its various members, as he saw would best conduce to the harmony and usefulness of all.

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  hath. Omit. set . Same word us "ordain" in John 15:16 . every . each. as it hath, &c . = as He pleased, or purposed. App-102. Compare 1 Corinthians 15:38 .

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  18. But now God hath placed. Here we have another argument, taken from the appointment of God. “It has pleased God, that the body should consist of various members, and that the members shou...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. Now - as the case really is. Every one - each severally.

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  CHRUCH REFORM ‘But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased Him.’ 1 Corinthians 12:18 (R. V.) What is meant by Church Reform? This has nothing to do with...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But now hath God set the members ,.... The members of a natural body, as they are all made and fashioned by God in the form they be, so they are each of them set by him in the place they are: ever...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. Ver. 18. God hath set, &c. ] And he, as only wise, doth all in number, weight, and measure. Shall we no...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The infinitely wise God, who hath made the body of man, and ordered all the members of the body for several uses and offices, either for the upholding or accommodating the life of man, hath likewise...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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,...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The body of Christ and its members:

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 12:11 ; 1 Corinthians 12:24 ; 1 Corinthians 12:28 ; 1 Corinthians 15:38 ; 1 Corinthians 3:5 ; Ephesians 1:5 ; Ephesians 1:9 ; Isaiah 46:10 ; Jonah 1:14 ; Luke 10:21 ; Luke 12...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - 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...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  As it hath pleased him — With the most exquisite wisdom and goodness.

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