1 Corinthians 12:20
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...
20. Many members — one body He repeats this the oftener, because the stress of the whole question lies here — that the unity of the body i...
But now are they many members, yet but one body.
But now are they many members, yet but one body. Now - as the case really is; in contrast to the supposition ( 1 Corinthians 12:19 : cf. 1 C...
(e) Spiritual Gifts In the early Church various powers, faculties, and graces were bestowed on individual Christians by the Holy Spirit. Some of...
But now are they. — From the reductio ad absurdum of the previous verses the Apostle turns to the fact as it is, and proceeds (in 1 Corinthians...
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...
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 mar...
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...
But now are they many members ,.... Of different make and shape, in different parts and places, and of different use and service: yet but one body...
But now are they many members, yet but one body. Ver. 20. But now are they many members, &c. ] 1. Use; 2. Necessity; 3. Honour; 4. Comeline...
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...
The multiplicity of members, having several uses and offices for the service of the whole body, do not make a multiplicity of bodies, the body still...
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...
'But now they are many members, but one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you", or again the head to the feet, "I have no...
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...
But now are they many members, yet but one body. The members of the body of Christ I. Their unity. “One body.” II. Their diversity. The eye,...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 12:1-46 .— 1 Corinthians 14:1-46 .— ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS , AND THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE ABUSE...
The need of all the members:
Concerning Spiritual Gifts 1 Corinthians 12:1-31 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A contrast between the spiritual and the carnal in Abram and Lot ( Ge...
But one body — And it is a necessary consequence of this unity, that the several members need one another.
20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.