1 Corinthians 12:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. ”

• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And whether one member suffer - One member, or part of the body. All the members suffer with it - This, we all know, is the case with the body. A pain in the foot, the hand, or the head excit...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (13) And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. (13) Now he applies this same doctrine to the Corinthians without any...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - 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 12:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  whether . if at least. Greek. eite. Compare App-118. suffer with it . suffer together. Greek. sumpascho. Only here and Romans 8:17 . or . Greek. eite , as above. honoured . glorified. Se...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  26. Whether one member suffers “Such a measure of fellow-feeling.” ( συμπάθεια ,) (761) says he, “is to be seen in the human body, that, if any inconvenience is felt by any member, al...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. And whether one member suffer - As there is a mutual exertion for the genera...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. And-accordingly-all ... suffer with it. 'When a thorn enters the hee...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - 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 12:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And whether one member suffer. — This verse completes the statement of the perfect unity of the members in one body and with one another. They are not only physically joined together, but they are...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - 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 12:26 - 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 12:26 - 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 12:26 - 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 12:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And whether one member suffer ,.... Pain; even the meanest, lowest, and most distant, as the foot or hand, toe or finger: all the members suffer with it ; are more or less affected therewith, and...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. Ver. 26. And whether one man suffer ] This spiritual sympathy, mirum es...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For our comely and graceful parts have no need Of being so adorned, as they appear to greater advantage uncovered; but God hath tempered the body together Συνεκερασε, hath attempered and united...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - 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 12:26 - 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 12:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  From this union of the members in the body natural, of all the members proceedeth a natural sympathy, that if one member suffereth, all are afflicted, and ready to contribute to the relief and help e...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - 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 12:26 - 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 12:26 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  1 Corinthians 12:26 Social Responsibility. There are three great principles which ought to govern a Christian's thought in his estimate of a great criminal case. I. Of these the first is, that e...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - 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 12:26 - 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 12:26 - 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 12:26 - 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 12:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The application of the figure:

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 3:8 ; 2 Corinthians 11:28 ; 2 Corinthians 11:29 ; Galatians 6:2 ; Hebrews 13:3 ; Romans 12:15

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• 1 Corinthians 12:26 - 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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