1 Corinthians 12:14
What meaning of the 1 corinthians 12:14 in the Bible?
What does 1 Corinthians 12:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For the body is not one member, but many."
What does 1 Corinthians 12:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For the body is not one member, but many."
Verse 1 Corinthians 12:14. _FOR THE BODY IS NOT ONE MEMBER_] The _mystical_ body, the Church, as well as the _natural_ body, is composed of many members....
FOR THE BODY ... - The body is made up of many members, which have various offices. So it is in the church. We are to expect the same variety there; and we are not to presume either that all will be a...
2. THE BODY AND THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Concerning spiritual manifestations and diversities of gifts. (1 Corinthians 12:1 .)_ 2. The Body and its members. (1 Corinthians 12:12 .) In...
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 par...
THE CONFESSION OF THE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)...
Comparison of the Unity of the Body and the Unity of the Christian Church 12. _For as the body is one, and hath many members_ This simile is a very common one. It is used on several occasions by the A...
COMPARISON OF THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE UNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH...
_MANY MEMBERS IN ONE BODY 1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-14:_ The one body is the one church of Christ. (Ephesians 1:22-23; Ephesians 4:4) Paul used the human body to help us better understand the church. The ch...
ΤΟ ΣΏΜΑ (G4983), артикль при подлежащем "тело" является обобщающим: "любое тело" (Barrett; GGBB, 253-54). ΈΣΤΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть, состоять из чего-л....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Sagaciousness of Diversity (1 Corinthians 12:12-26) 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so i...
For the body is not one member, but many. Translate, For the body also.' The analogy of the body, not consisting exclusively of one, but of many members, illustrates the mutual dependence of the va...
13 The body of Jesus, or of the Lord, denotes His physical frame. The body of Christ, however, is quite a distinct thought. Christ, or the Anointed, is a title rather than a name. It suggests official...
_(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 prophecy,...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 *SPIRITUAL GIFTS 12:1-31 1. JESUS IS *LORD 12:1-3 V1 Now about the *Holy Spirit’s gifts, *brothers and *sisters, I do not want to leave...
FOR THE BODY IS NOT ONE MEMBER, BUT MANY. — Here follows a series of suggestions as to the different parts of the body claiming independence of the body itself, which the nature of the case shows to b...
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 page a...
§ 40. THE ONE BODY, OF MANY MEMBERS. The manifold graces, ministries, workings (1 Corinthians 12:4 ff.), that proceed from the action of the Holy Spirit in the Christian community, stand not only in c...
MANY MEMBERS IN ONE BODY 1 Corinthians 12:12 The use of gifts must never be dictated by personal ambition or the desire for selfish gain. As every member of the physical body is united to the head by...
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 Spi...
The Unity of the Body There is but one body. That body is the church. Paul told the Ephesian brethren, "There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling." Earlier...
(9) For the body is not one member, but many. (9) He amplifies that which followed of the similitude, as if he should say, "The unity of the body is not prevented by this diversity of members, and fu...
“And indeed, by being baptized by one Spirit, we have all become one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free.” The καὶ γάρ, _and indeed_, relates to the last words of the foregoing verse:...
(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 one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
The other branch of the truth, in reference to the assembly of God in general and to the assemblies, is the presence and the gifts of the Holy Ghost. These, as well as the Lord's supper, are in connec...
FOR THE BODY IS NOT ONE MEMBER,.... Not only one; nor is anyone member the body, though ever so eminent, as the head or eye: thus the church of Christ is not one person only, or does not consist of on...
For the body is not one member, but many. Ver. 14. _Not one member, but many_] As man's body curiously wrought, and as it were by the book, Psalms 139:16. Had God left out an eye or hand in his commo...
_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: thus there must be different gifts and offices in t...
The body of Christ and its members:...
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 sai...
FOR THE BODY IS NOT ONE MEMBER, BUT MANY. While the body is one (1 Corinthians 12:13), it is. mistake to think that the body is composed of one member. But, by elevating the gift of tongues over all...
12-26 Christ and his church form one body, as Head and members. Christians become members of this body by baptism. The outward rite is of Divine institution; it is a sign of the new birth, and is cal...
As the natural body is _totum integrale, _ a whole consisting of many members; so the body spiritual, the mystical body of Christ, is not made up of one single member, but of many members....
For the body is not one member, but many....
1 Corinthians 12:14 For G1063 G2532 body G4983 is G2076 (G5748) not G3756 one G1520 member G3196 but G235 many G4183 1 Corinthians 12:12, 1 Corinthians 12:19, 1 Corinthians 12:27-28;...
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 init...
IS NOT ONE MEMBER (ουκ εστιν εν μελος). The point sounds like a truism, but it is the key to the whole problem of church life both local and general. Vincent refers to the fable of the body and the...
1 Corinthians 12:1. _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 the mem...
CONTENTS: Spiritual gifts in the Body of Christ, for ministry and worship. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The Body of Christ in the world is for the service for, and manifest...
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, and a...
FOR THE BODY ITSELF. The human body is made up of many different parts, with different abilities and different functions....
_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 to be...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 12:1 Some Corinthian Christians seem to have been creating divisions over spiritual gifts. Paul’s use of the body analogy in 1 Corinthians 12:12 implies that they h...
CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER In this and the two following Chapter s S. Paul discusses Christian gifts and graces. In this chapter he points out I. That gifts are variously distributed by the...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 12:1.—GIFTS is a translators’ supplement; right in fact, as 1 Corinthians 12:4 show; slightly too precise in word. Almost certainly _neuter_, and so very general, “_spi...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 12:1.—1 Corinthians 14:1.—ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE ABUSE OF THE "GIFT OF TONGUES." 1 CORINTHIANS 12:1 _On spiritual gifts in general._ 1 COR...
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 gr...
1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Corinthians 12:19; 1 Corinthians 12:27; 1 Corinthians 12:28; Ephesians 4:25...
The body. The student will naturally recall the fable of the body and the members uttered by Menenius Agrippa, and related by Livy, 2, 32; but the illustration seems to have been a favorite one, and o...
CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS 1 Corinthians 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A contrast between the spiritual and the carnal in Abram and Lot (Genesis 18:1 and Genesis 19:1). 2. A contrast between the spir...
Our apostle here elegantly compares the state of the mystical body, the church, with that of the natural body. As the natural body is one, so is the mystical body; as the natural body is informed and...