1 Corinthians 12:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. ”

• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And the eye cannot say unto the hand ... - The hand in its place is as needful as the eye; and the feet as the head. Nay, the eye and the head could not perform their appropriate functions, or wo...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (12) And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. (12) Now on the other hand, he speaks to those who were endued with more exc...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - 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 12:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  cannot . is not (Greek. ou) able to. unto . to. no . App-105.

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• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  21. And the eye cannot say to the hand Hitherto he has been showing, what is the office of the less honorable members — to discharge their duty to the body, and not envy the more distinguish...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee - The apostle goes on...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. The higher cannot dispense with the lower.

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• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - 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 12:21 - 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 12:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Each Contributing His Part 1 Corinthians 12:20-31 The hand and the foot obviously stand in need of each other; but the same interdependence marks the feebler and humbler parts of our frame. Ind...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - 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 12:21 - 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 12:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the eye cannot say unto the hand ,.... Every member of the natural body is useful and necessary. The eye, the seat of the sense of seeing, cannot say to the communicating and working hand, I h...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Ver. 21. The eye cannot say, &c. ] Superiors may not slight their inferior...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And the eye In its commanding station, and possessed as it is of light and discernment; cannot say to the hand Endowed with neither of these qualities, and the mere instrument of action; I have...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - 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 12:21 - 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 12:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He names two of the most noble and useful members of the body, the head and the eye, which yet cannot tell the hands or the feet they have no need of them: the wise God having created nothing in v...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - 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 12:21 - 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 12:21 - 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 12:21 - 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 12:21 - 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 12:21 - 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 12:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The need of all the members:

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• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 25:32 ; Ezra 10:1-5 ; Job 29:11 ; Nehemiah 4:16-21 ; Numbers 10:31 ; Numbers 10:32

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• 1 Corinthians 12:21 - 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 12:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Nor the head — The highest part of all. To the foot — The very lowest.

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