1 Corinthians 12:27

1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Corinthians 12:14-20; Colossians 1:24; Ephesians 1:23; Ephesians 4:12; Ephesians 5:23; Ephesians 5:30; Romans 12:5

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now ye - Ye Christians of Corinth, as a part of the whole church that has been redeemed. Are the body of Christ - The allusion to the human b...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in (s) particular. (s) For all churches, wherever they are dispersed through the whole world, are differe...
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 w...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the body . There is no art. because soma is the predicate. Compare 1 Corinthians 3:16 . in particular . Greek. ek (App-104.) merous. The me...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

27. But ye are the body of Christ Hence what has been said respecting the nature and condition of the human body must be applied to us; for...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. Now ye are the body of Christ - The apostle, having finished his apologue, comes to his app...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Now ye are the body of Christ.— Dr. Heylin renders this, Thus ye are the body of Christ; each being a particular member, which God has placed in t...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. Members in particular - i:e. severally members of it. Each church is in miniature w...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ye are the body of Christ ] true of individual Churches, as here; and of the Church universal ( Ephesians 1:23 ). Members in particular ] i.e. eac...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Now. — We have here in general terms the application of the foregoing illustration, the detailed application of which follows in 1 Corinthians 12:...
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...
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 mar...
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 t...
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, thirdl...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now ye are the body of Christ ,.... Not his natural body, which his Father prepared for him, in which he bore our sins on the tree, and which was of...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. Ver. 27. Now ye are, &c. ] St Cyprian's sympathy is remarkable, Cum singulis pectu...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Now ye Believers at Corinth; are the body of Christ A part of it, not the whole body; and members in particular That is, each believer is a par...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

On Spiritual Gifts. A. D. 57. 27 Now ye ar...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

OLBGrk; Considering you in the whole as a church, so ye are the body of Christ: considering you particularly as individual believers, so ye are m...
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 ('concer...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

'Now you (the 'you' is emphatic) are the body of Christ, and severally members of it. And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly pr...
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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 12:27 I. The Church is the body in which Christ dwells as the soul, lighting up the body with His Divine presence, the organisation...
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 th...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
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 wo...
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 w...
The Biblical Illustrator

Niw ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. The body of Christ I. True Christians, as the body of Christ, manifest His personal p...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The spiritual meaning of the comparison:
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 ( Ge...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Now ye — Corinthians. Are the body and members of Christ — part of them, I mean, not the whole body.

²⁷ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Related Commentaries of 1 Corinthians 12:27

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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