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Romans 12:4
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office,
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office,
Verse Romans 12:4. _FOR AS WE HAVE MANY MEMBERS_] As the human body consists of many parts, each having its respective office, and all contributing to the perfection and support of the whole; each bei...
FOR - This word here denotes a further illustration or proof of what he had just before said. The duty to which he was exhorting the Romans was, not to be unduly exalted or elevated in their own estim...
III. EXHORTATIONS AND THE CONCLUSION. Chapter s 12-16. CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The Body as a Willing Sacrifice. (Romans 12:1 .)_ 2. Service. (Romans 12:3 .) 3. The Daily Walk in Holiness. (Romans 12:9 .)...
IN THE CHRISTIAN TEMPER, _modesty_ is the first desideratum. Romans 12:3. I tell everyone that is among you not _to_ be high-minded above a right mind, but to be of a mind to be sober-minded (Sp.). Th...
THE TRUE WORSHIP AND THE ESSENTIAL CHANGE (Romans 12:1-2)...
For, through the grace that has been given to me, I say to everyone among you, not to have a mind proud beyond that which a mind should be, but to have a mind directed towards wisdom, as God has given...
MEMBERS. the members. OFFICE. See Romans 8:13 (deeds)....
_For as we have_ Here first (and last) in this Epistle St Paul uses the simile of the Body and its Limbs, to illustrate the close mutual connexion of the saints. For parallels, see 1 Corinthians 10:17...
ΚΑΘΆΠΕΡ ΓᾺΡ.… Cf. 1 Corinthians 12:12-27. The reason for this exercise of sober thought in contrast to exaggerated thought of self, is the position of the Christian as a member of a body in Christ. In...
The connexion seems to lie in the emphasis just laid upon mind as the instrument of the formation of the new character. This leads to the charge to keep that mind in the attitude and quality proper to...
F. 12–15:13. THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL SEEN IN ITS EFFECT UPON BOTH THE COMMON AND THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE OF CHRISTIANS. In this section S. Paul deals with the consequences of the principles he has worked...
ΚΑΘΆΠΕΡ (G2509) как. ΜΈΛΗ (G3196) _pl._ члены, ΠΡΆΞΙΣ (G4234) практика, работа, деятельность (Dunn)....
DISCOURSE: 1907 CHRISTIANS ARE ALL MEMBERS OF ONE BODY Romans 12:4. As we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every...
_TEXT_ Romans 12:3-16. For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly,...
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: FOR AS WE HAVE MANY MEMBERS IN ONE BODY, AND ALL MEMBERS HAVE NOT THE SAME OFFICE;...
__ Conciliation-National 22 Nothing shows the blindness of Christendom more than their severe denunciation of faithless Israel, yet they are following precisely the same course and have not the slig...
PARAPHRASE. '(1) God's redeeming love should be answered by the true sacrifice and spiritual ritual service of a life of purity and self-denial and work for God. (2) Do not follow the fashions and cus...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 12 TRUE *WORSHIP 12:1-2 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, God has shown you his kindness. Therefore I am appealing to you. Of...
In the church there must be a graduation, a hierarchy, a division of labour, every one doing that for which he is best fitted, just as in the body one member has one office assigned to it, and another...
MEMBERS IN ONE BODY. — This figure of the body and the members is worked out more fully in 1 Corinthians 12:12....
CHAPTER 25 CHRISTIAN CONDUCT THE ISSUE OF CHRISTIAN TRUTH Romans 12:1 AGAIN we may conjecture a pause, a long pause and deliberate, in the work of Paul and Tertius. We have reached the end, generall...
f. καθάπερ γὰρ : For language and figure _cf._ 1 Corinthians 12:12. Also Ephesians 4:15 f., Colossians 1:18. The comparison of the community to a body the social organism is very common in classical w...
The duties of members of the Church as such: avoidance of self-exaltation, and mutual service in the measure of the gift bestowed on each. λέγω γάρ : the γὰρ indicates that “humility is the immediate...
DEVOTING SELF AND USING GIFTS Romans 12:1 _ Therefore_ links this practical appeal to the whole of the sublime argument, which reaches its climax in the previous chapter. It is easier to die once for...
The word "therefore" links all that is now to be said with everything that has gone before. Because of the grace of God, the believer is called to certain attitudes and actions. The very first of thes...
(4) For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: (4) There are two reasons for the previous precept: the first is because God has not committed everything to be d...
“ _For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office; so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another._ ” The organization of the huma...
TWENTY-FIFTH PASSAGE (12:3-21). THE LIFE OF THE BELIEVER AS A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH. The notion of consecration is still the prevailing one in this passage. This consecration is realized in life: 1st,...
The natural tendency of man is to exalt himself. Here is the first point at which the will of God, discerned by the renewed mind of the believer, impresses on his conduct a completely opposite charact...
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (2) And be not conformed to this...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
_UNITY_ ‘For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.’ Romans 12:4 It is one o...
4._For as in one body, etc. _The very thing which he had previously said of limiting the wisdom of each according to the measure of faith, he now confirms by a reference to the vocation of the faithfu...
The apostle resumes the thread of his instructions, by taking up as he does in all his epistles the moral consequences of his doctrine. He places the believer at the outset on the ground of God's merc...
FOR AS WE HAVE MANY MEMBERS IN ONE BODY,.... The apostle illustrates what he said last concerning God's dealing to every man the measure of faith, by comparing the church of Christ to an human body, w...
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: Ver. 4. _For as we have, &e._] See 1 Corinthians 12:12, which is a commentary on this text....
_For as we have many members_ The apostle proceeds to illustrate his advice by a comparison taken from the members of the human body. _All members have not the same office_ But different members are a...
ALL MEMBERS HAVE NOT THE SAME OFFICE; the eye, for instance, cannot perform the office of the ear, nor the hand that of the foot. The perfection of the whole depends upon the perfection of each organ;...
PRACTICAL RESPONSE IN BELIEVERS Now Paul has completed his treatment of the subject of God's counsel in reference to salvation - counsel accomplished by a hand of mercy. What then is to be the proper...
Many members - segments, parts, organs, structures, components, elements We are still one body - not many bodies Office = function, job, objective, purpose, use to the body, role, duty 5 We = the c...
FOR EVEN AS WE HAVE MANY MEMBERS IN ONE BODY, AND ALL THE MEMBERS HAVE NOT THE SAME OFFICE: 'not the same office' -'the same function' (NASV) 'Christians are not all intended to major in the same are...
3-8 Pride is a sin in us by nature; we need to be cautioned and armed against it. All the saints make up one body in Christ, who is the Head of the body, and the common Centre of their unity. In the...
Ver. 4,5. These verses are a reason against arrogancy. All Christians are MEMBERS OF ONE and the same _body; _ therefore, they should not pride themselves in their gifts, but employ them for the commo...
For [also epexigetical. See verse 3] _even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office_ :...
Romans 12:4 For G1063 as G2509 have G2192 (G5719) many G4183 members G3196 in G1722 one G1520 body...
1). CHRISTIAN LIVING (12:1-13:14). In this passage Paul calls on God's people so to present their bodies as a living offering to God, through their having died with Christ and risen with Him (Romans 6...
A CALL TO MAKE REAL IN THE CHURCH AND IN THE WORLD THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH THEY HAVE RECEIVED (12:1-15:33). This section moves from the indicative to the imperative. Having outlined the ways of God i...
EACH MEMBER IS TO PLAY HIS APPROPRIATE PART IN BUILDING UP CHRIST'S BODY (12:3-8). In Romans 11:16 God was seen as ministering to His people in establishing and building up the olive tree which repres...
‘For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.' There is a clear resemb...
1. _Practical Theme; Duties according to special Gifts._ The theme is fully stated in Romans 12:1-2; then follows an exhortation to humility (Romans 12:3-5), which introduces the special reference to...
Romans 12:4. FOR AS WE HAVE MANY MEMBERS IN ONE BODY. The parallel here set forth (Romans 12:4-5) is more fully carried out in 1 Corinthians 12:12, etc. In Ephesians (throughout) the unity is emphasiz...
THE SAME OFFICE (την αυτην πραξιν). Mode of acting or function. Cf. Acts 19:18; Romans 8:13....
Romans 12:1. _I beseech you therefore, brethren,_ Paul is a calm reasoner. He is a bold starer of truth, but here he comes to pleading with us. I think that I see him lift the pen from the paper and...
CONTENTS: Christian life and service. Consecration to Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: Since we have been justified through grace, by faith in Christ, it is our first duty to surren...
Romans 12:1. _I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God._ Under the form of entreaty he now tenderly exhorts them, in return for all the glory of redeeming love, to present their bodies...
WE HAVE MANY PARTS. Our human bodies are made up of many different parts, each fulfilling its separate function for the good of the whole....
_For as we have many members in one body._ ST. PAUL’S VIEW OF LIFE How comprehensively he surveys the whole range of human action and conduct! He starts from the consideration of men as constituting...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 12:4 The diversity and unity of the church is compared to the human body. (See also 1 Corinthians 12:1 and...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 12:1 God’s Righteousness in Everyday Life. The gift of God’s saving righteousness leads to a new life. Paul explains some practical results of God’s saving mercy....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 12:5.—We are knit together in Christ, as the head in the organic life. Romans 12:6.—Prophesying is both foretelling and forthtelling. Hence preaching and expounding make the p...
EXPOSITION VER. 1–CH. 14:23 III. HORTATORY. It is St. Paul's way to supplement his doctrinal treatises with detailed practical directions as to the conduct that should of necessity ensue on belief in...
I beseech you therefore, brethren (Romans 12:1), Because God has grafted you in, because you are partaking of the fullness of that good tree. I beseech thee, because of these things, that ye present...
1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Corinthians 12:27; 1 Corinthians 12:4; Ephesians 4:15;...
Office [π ρ α ξ ι ν]. Lit., mode of acting....
GOD'S CALL TO CONSECRATION Romans 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Permit me to enlarge upon the expression, "THEREFORE." Our chapter opens thus: "I beseech you THEREFORE, brethren, by the mercies of God....
Here the apostle lays before us. special reason why the officers of the church should exercise humility towards, and employ their gifts and talents for, the general good and benefit of the church. The...