1 Corinthians 12:22
What meaning of the 1 corinthians 12:22 in the Bible?
What does 1 Corinthians 12:22 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:"
What does 1 Corinthians 12:22 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:"
Verse 22. _THOSE MEMBERS - WHICH SEEM TO BE MORE FEEBLE_] These, and the _less honourable_ and _uncomely_, mentioned in the next verses, seem to mean the principal _viscera_, such as the _heart,_ _lu...
WHICH SEEM TO BE MORE FEEBLE - Weaker than the rest; which seem less able to bear fatigue and to encounter difficulties; which are more easily injured, and which become more easily affected with disea...
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)...
NAY. But. TO BE. i.e. naturally. Greek. _huparcho._ See Luke 9:48....
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 DIVERSE MEMBERS UNITED 1 CORINTHIANS 12:15-26:_ There is nothing more diverse and nothing more united than the body. The imaginary conversations between the various parts of the body make this p...
ΆΛΛΆ (G235) противительное значение, напротив (RWP). ΠΟΛΛΦ ΜΆΛΛΟΝ насколько больше. _Dat._ сравнения, положительная степень _adj._ в роли сравнительной (Kistemaker). ΔΟΚΟΫ́ΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. от...
NAY, MUCH MORE THOSE MEMBERS, &C.— Some think that in the words _which seem to be more feeble,_ St. Paul refers to the _brains_ and _bowels,_ which are very tender, and liable to many disorders. Other...
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...
Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: MORE FEEBLE - more susceptible of injury; e. g., the brain, belly, eye. Their very feebleness, so far from do...
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...
WHICH SEEM TO BE MORE FEEBLE. — The general argument of this and the following verse (without attempting to identify the particular parts of the body referred to) is that the weakest parts of the body...
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...
1 Corinthians 12:21-31 _a_. § 41. THE MUTUAL DEPENDENCE OF THE BODY'S MEMBERS. Multiformity, it has been shown, is of the essence of organic life. But the variously endowed members, being needful to t...
EACH CONTRIBUTING HIS PART 1 Corinthians 12:20 The hand and the foot obviously stand in need of each other; but the same interdependence marks the feebler and humbler parts of our frame. Indeed, it...
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 Need For Different Members God put different members in the body to perform specific functions. If all were the same part, even the most important, they would not have made up a body. Different m...
Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be (p) more feeble, are necessary: (p) Of the smallest and vilest offices, and therefore mentioned last among the rest....
The object of this exposition is manifest. The Corinthians were disposed to exaggerate the value of certain gifts, which, from their extraordinary character, were fitted to strike the senses, in parti...
(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...
NAY, MUCH MORE THOSE MEMBERS OF THE BODY,.... The apostle, in a beautiful gradation, proceeds to take notice of such parts of the body as are more weak, dishonourable, and uncomely, showing the necess...
Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: Ver. 22. _Which seem to be, &c._] As the organs of nourishment, not so noble, but more necessary than those of t...
_And the eye_ In its commanding station, and possessed as it is of light and discernment; _cannot say to the hand_ Endowed with neither of these qualities, and the mere instrument of action; _I have n...
ARE NECESSARY; the strongest and most prominent members of the body are not in all cases the most essential to human life, but often those which are more feeble and concealed. Those parts which need i...
The need of all the 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...
NAY, MUCH RATHER, THOSE MEMBERS OF THE BODY WHICH SEEM TO BE MORE FEEBLE ARE NECESSARY: 'Nay, much rather' -'On the contrary' (Lenski p. 528) The very opposite is true. 'It is much truer' (NASV). Pa...
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...
By FEEBLE the apostle here doth not only mean most weak, but which seem to us most abject and contemptible; in which sense the word is used, 2 CORINTHIANS 12:10; such are the belly and the entrails; t...
Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary:...
1 Corinthians 12:22 No G235 much G4183 rather G3123 members G3196 body G4983 seem G1380 (G5723) be G5225 (G5721) weaker G772 are G2076 (G5748) necessary G316 Proverbs 14:28; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12,...
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...
1 Corinthians 12:22. NAY, MUCH RATHER THOSE MEMBERS... WHICH SEEM... MORE FEEBLE, ARE NECESSARY even more than eyes, hands, feet....
NAY, MUCH RATHER (αλλα πολλω μαλλον). Adversative sense of αλλα, on the contrary. So far from the more dignified members like the eye and the head being independent of the subordinate ones like 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...
WE CANNOT DO WITHOUT. In our human bodies, the brain, lungs, and intestines are easily injured, but we could more easily get along without an arm, leg, or eye, than one of these....
_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...
2 Corinthians 1:11; Ecclesiastes 4:9; Ecclesiastes 5:9; Ecclesiastes 9:14; Ecclesiastes 9:15; Proverbs 14:28; Titus 2:10; Titus 2:9...
Seem to be [δ ο κ ο υ ν τ α - υ π α ρ χ ε ι ν]. The allusion is probably to those which seem to be weaker in their original structure, naturally. This may be indicated by the use of uJparcein to be (s...
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...
The members which appear to be weaker — Being of a more delicate and tender structure; perhaps the brains and bowels, or the veins, arteries, and other minute channels in the body....