1 Corinthians 12:12 WEB

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

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 initial warning that such gifts can easily be perverted by the subtlety of evil spiritual forces. It is in the nature of spiritual gifts that they will be imitated and distorted by such evil forces with ill intent, for they are ever out to deceive, and will seek to mimic spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians... read more

Peter Pett

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

'For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.' Paul here likens Christ and His people to a body with its many different parts, and he describes them not as 'the church' but as 'Christ'. This revelation of Paul's inspired thinking must be carefully noted. It is not that Christ is in Heaven and we are on the earth, it is that we are with Him in 'heavenly places' (John 14:18; John 14:23; Ephesians 2:6; Philippians 3:20;... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 12:12-31

1 Corinthians 12:12-Obadiah : . 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 parts themselves. All are essential to the welfare of every other part and of the whole; none, however important or beautiful, can affect to despise the humbler or unseemlier; all sympathetically respond to the pain or honour of the other. The illustration does not... read more

Matthew Poole

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

For as it is in the body natural, the integral parts, or members of it, are many, yet the body is but one; so it is in the spiritual body, the church, which is that mystical body of which Christ is the Head. The members of the church may be many, and there may be in several members of the church a diversity of gifts, of administrations, and operations, yet the church is but one, yea, Christ and the church make up but one mystical body, of which he is the Head; and they are the members; and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

CRITICAL NOTES1 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 general, “spiritual things.” Another of the topics laid before Paul for his discussion and guiding instructions.1 Corinthians 12:2. Dumb.—In contrast with the “tongues,” which were, in the mind of the Corinthians, the most striking and choice charism of the Spirit; denying also to the idol, and attributing... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

Now concerning the spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you be ignorant ( 1 Corinthians 12:1 ).An interesting statement of Paul, because I think that in the church one of the areas where the greatest ignorance does exist today is in the area of spiritual gifts, and their operation within the church. And this ignorance is on both sides of the fence.Within the Pentecostal churches there is a lot of abuse of the gifts of the Spirit, because people are ignorant of their true operation within... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

1 Corinthians 12:1-2 . 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, and apprise you that those endowments are altogether divine, and are the emanations of celestial glory; the adornings of God our Saviour, peculiar to the christian church. Proofs demonstrative of the divine authority of our religion. While you bowed before dumb idols, all around you were the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

1 Corinthians 12:1-31Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.Spiritual giftsThe particular gifts to which St. Paul was referring were not exactly as a whole like anything that is to be witnessed in the Church now. They produced effects which challenged the attention of the eye and the ear, and were calculated to fire the imagination. St. Paul mentions nine of these gifts. Of these the word of knowledge, the word of wisdom and prophecy, were such as might be found... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Corinthians 12:12

1 Corinthians 12:12For as the body is one, and hath many members … so also is Christ.Of the great variety of men’s characters in the ChurchThe law of variety in unity obtains--I. In nature.1. No two leaves of the same tree, no two faces, even of twins, entirely correspond. Science, however, is continually bringing to light an unity and simplicity of type in things apparently different. What objects can present a greater superficial difference than quadrupeds and fishes, both of which, however,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 12:12

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. Ver. 12. So also is Christ ] Mystical Christ, the Church. Christ the Saviour of his body Eph 5:23 accounts not himself complete without his Church, Ephesians 1:23 . So God is called Jacob, Psalms 24:6 . read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

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

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 12:12-31

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

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Corinthians 12:12

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 12:12

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