2 Kings 14:9; Judges 9:8-15
If the foot shall say ... - The same figure and illustration which Paul here uses occurs also in pagan writers. It occurs in the apologue which w...
(10) If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? (10) Now he builds his doctrine upon t...
Paul now elaborates an illustration from the body and its members. Here we have organic unity with diversity of function and interdependence of the w...
If . App-118. the . a. of . App-104. therefore . on account of (Greek. para . App-104.) this.
15. This is a bringing out still farther ( ἐπεξεργασία ) of the preceding statement, or in other words, an exposition of it, with some am...
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the foot shall say, etc. - As all the mem...
Is it therefore not of the body?— It is not for that reason no part of the body. Bengelius and Wetstein.
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? The humble ought not to disparage the...
(e) Spiritual Gifts In the early Church various powers, faculties, and graces were bestowed on individual Christians by the Holy Spirit. Some of...
A warning against being envious of others' gifts, negligent of our own. Is it therefore not of the body?] RV 'it is not therefore not of the bo...
Is it therefore not of the body? — Better, It is not on that account not of the body; and so omit the note of interrogation in the subsequent pas...
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...
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...
Now the apostle turned from the corrective section of his letter to the constructive as he proceeded to deal with the spiritualities which negative t...
(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 on...
If the foot shall say ,.... The lowest member of the body, which is nearest the earth, treads upon it, sustains the whole weight of the body, and pe...
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? Ver. 15. If the foot should say, &c....
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:...
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...
Union Recommended. A. D. 57. 12 For as the...
Ver. 15,16. It should seem by these expressions, that one great cause of those divisions, which the apostle had charged the church of Corinth with, w...
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 ('concer...
'For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, "Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body", it is not therefore not of the b...
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...
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 th...
1 Corinthians 12:12-13 . 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...
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 wo...
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Spiritual gifts The particular gifts to which St. Paul was referring w...
For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body . Of union with Christ Consider-- I. How Christ’s redemption is applied to a sinner. By u...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 12:1-46 .— 1 Corinthians 14:1-46 .— ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS , AND THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE ABUSE...
The body of Christ and its members:
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?
Concerning Spiritual Gifts 1 Corinthians 12:1-31 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A contrast between the spiritual and the carnal in Abram and Lot ( Ge...
The foot is elegantly introduced as speaking of the hand; the ear, of the eye; each, of a part that has some resemblance to it. So among men each i...
15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?