1 Corinthians 12:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed:a and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. ”

• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Wherefore I give you to understand - I make known to you. The force of this expression is, “I give you this rule to distinguish,” or by which you may know what influences and operations are from...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (3) Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus (c) accursed: and [that] no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. (3) The conclus...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  He begins by distinguishing true gifts of the Spirit from their counterfeit. Unhappily 1 Corinthians 12:2 is far from clear, and the text is perhaps corrupt. Paul may appeal to their experience of...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  give you to understand . make known to you. Greek. gnorizo. no man . no one. Greek. oudeis. speaking . App-121. by . in. App-104. Spirit of God . Greek. pneuma Theou. The new nature. A...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  3. Wherefore I give you to know. Having admonished them from their own experience, he sets before them a general doctrine, which he deduces from it; for what the Corinthians had experienced...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1981 NO KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST BUT BY THE SPIRIT 1 Corinthians 12:3 . I give you to understand, that ….. no man can say, that Jesus is the Lord, bat by the Holy Ghost . WE trust that am...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. No man speaking by the S...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  No man, speaking by the Spirit—calleth Jesus accursed.— "No man that is inspired by the Spirit of God, can speak evil of Jesus; and no man cometh to him, and heartily owns him for his Lord, excep...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Negative and positi...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - 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 12:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Wherefore I give you to understand. — Better, Wherefore I make known unto you. Because such was your condition, and there still seems to linger in your minds some of the ignorance which belonged...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - 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 12:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Differing Spiritual Gifts 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 Each believer, being an heir of God, has the same amount of grace placed to his credit in the heavenly bank, on which he can draw in time of ne...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - 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 12:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. (2) Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. (3) Wherefore I give you to un...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE UNFOLDING OF THE DIVINE REVELATION “No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost.’ 1 Corinthians 12:3 This supreme gift of knowledge of God, though given along with other...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wherefore I give you to understand ,.... Or "I make known unto you"; what I am about to say are certain truths, and to be depended on, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accur...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Ver. 3. Calleth Jesu...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Wherefore Since it was so with you once, and it is otherwise now, this is a full demonstration of the truth of the Christian religion, through your faith in, and reception of, which, you received t...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - 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 12:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  On Spiritual Gifts. A. D.  57.       1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have y...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The apostle proveth that they had received their spiritual gifts from the Spirit of God, because when they had not received this Spirit, they blasphemed the Christian religion, and called Christ acc...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  A Warning That Spiritual Gifts Can Be Imitated By Evil Forces (12:1-3) 'Now concerning spiritual things (‘what is spiritual'), brothers, I would not have you ignorant. You know that when you were...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - 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 12:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  1 Corinthians 12:3 A Test of True Inspiration. It is not easy at first to understand St. Paul's object in this passage. He seems to be laying down, first of all, a truism about which there can be...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - 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 12:3 - 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 12:3 - 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 12:3 - 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 12:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Of the Use and Purpose of Spiritual Gifts. All spiritual gifts from God:

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 16:22 ; 1 Corinthians 8:6 ; 1 John 4:2 ; 1 John 4:3 ; 2 Corinthians 11:4 ; 2 Corinthians 3:5 ; Deuteronomy 21:23 ; Galatians 3:13 ; John 13:13 ; John 15:26 ; John 16:14 ; Jo...

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• 1 Corinthians 12:3 - 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 12:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Therefore — Since the heathen idols cannot speak themselves, much less give spiritual gifts to others, these must necessarily be among Christians only. As no one speaking by the Spirit of God calle...

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