1 Corinthians 12:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? ”

• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Are all apostles? ... - These questions imply, with strong emphasis, that it could not be, and ought not to be, that there should be perfect equality of endowment. It was not a matter of fact tha...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - 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 12:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Are . All these seven questions are introduced by me (App-105). workers of . There is no word for "workers". Figure of speech Ellipsis. App-6.

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  29. Are all Apostles ? It may indeed have happened, that one individual was endowed with many gifts, and sustained two of the offices which he has enumerated; nor was there in this any incon...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Are all apostles, etc. - That is: All are not apostles, all are not prophets, etc.; God has distributed his...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Are all Apostles?— It appears that this invidious temper was not extirpated from among the Corinthians, even by this just and lively expostulation: for Clemens Romanus, writing to them many years a...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Are all ... ? Surely not.

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - 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 12:29 - 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 12:29 - 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 12:29 - 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 12:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (27) Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. (28) And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of hea...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Are all apostles ?.... No some are prophets, as distinct from apostles; and some are teachers, as distinct from them both, and some are neither: are all prophets ? no; some are apostles, above the...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Ver. 29. Are all teachers? ] Yes, some would have it so, as in Alcibiades' army all were leaders, no lea...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And God hath set in the church first apostles Who planted the gospel in the heathen nations, being honoured with an office of the highest distinction, and furnished with endowments peculiar to them...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - 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 12:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  On Spiritual Gifts. A. D.  57.       27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.  ...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 29,30. That is, all are not, nor can be, any more than all the body can be an ear, or an eye, or a hand, or a foot: you cannot expect, that in a governed body all should be governors; and you se...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - 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 12:29 - 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 12:29 - 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 12:29 - 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 12:29 - 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 12:29 - 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 12:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The spiritual meaning of the comparison:

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 12:14-20 ; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11

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• 1 Corinthians 12:29 - 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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