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Romans 12:6
Having, then, gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Having, then, gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Verse Romans 12:6. _HAVING THEN GIFTS DIFFERING_, c.] As the goodness of God, with this view of our mutual subserviency and usefulness, has endowed us with different gifts and qualifications, let each...
HAVING THEN GIFTS - All the endowments which Christians have are regarded by the apostle as gifts. God has conferred them; and this fact, when properly felt, tends much to prevent our thinking of ours...
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...
HAVING THEN. But having. GIFTS. Greek. charisma. App-184. DIFFERING. Greek. _diaphoros._ Only here; Hebrews 1:4; Hebrews 8:6; Hebrews 9:10. ACCORDING TO. Greek. _kata_. App-104. wheth
_whether prophecy_, &c. The Gr. construction from hence to the end of Romans 12:8 is peculiar, because elliptical; but the E. V. well interprets the ellipses. _prophecy_ Here probably the _charisma_,...
ἜΧΟΝΤΕΣ ΔῈ Κ.Τ.Λ. ΔῈ brings out, in contrast with the unity just emphasised, the difference of function indicated in 4 b. But, as we have different gifts, we must use them in relation to others, in se...
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...
ΈΧΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΧΩ (G2192) иметь. Использование здесь этого слова определяется образом тела (Dunn). _Сопутств._ или _adj. part._ ΔΙΆΦΟΡΟΣ (G1313) отличающийся. ΆΝΆΛΟΓΊΑ (G356)"пропорц...
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...
ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF FAITH— This _proportion of faith,_ and the _measure of faith,_ Romans 12:3 seem not to relate to the degree of any gift considered in itself, but rather to the relation...
_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,...
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; HAVING THEN GIFTS DIFFERING ACCORDING TO THE GRACE T...
__ 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...
GIFTS] see on Romans 1:13. IS] RV 'was,' i.e. when the Holy Spirit was received. PROPHECY] i.e. inspired speaking, whether foretelling the future, or unfolding spiritual truth: cp. Acts 11:28; 1 Corin...
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...
GIFTS DIFFERING ACCORDING TO THE GRACE. — The English loses a point here. The word translated “gifts” means specially “gifts of grace,” grace standing here for the operation of the Spirit. Different k...
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...
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...
ff. At this point an application, apparently, is made of what has been said in Romans 12:4-5, but the grammar is very difficult. Both A.V. and R.V. supply what is needed in order to read the verses as...
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...
(5) Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the (l) proportion of faith; (5) That which he spoke before in general, he...
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...
“ _Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us [let us exercise them], whether prophecy, according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, in ministering; or he that teache...
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; (7) Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he t...
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...
6._Having gifts, etc. _Paul speaks not now simply of cherishing among ourselves brotherly love, but commends humility, which is the best moderator of our whole life. Every one desires to have so much...
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...
HAVING THEN GIFTS, DIFFERING,.... As in a natural body, the various members of it have not the same office, and do not perform the same actions, thus they have not the same, but different faculties; o...
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, _let us prophesy_ according to the proportion of faith; Ver. 6. _According to the proportion_] That form of s...
_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...
GIFTS DIFFERING ACCORDING TO THE GRACE THAT IS GIVEN; God graciously bestows upon different members of the church different talents and gifts, and all are to use them according to his will. PROPHECY;...
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...
AND HAVING GIFTS DIFFERING ACCORDING TO THE GRACE THAT WAS GIVEN TO US, WHETHER PROPHECY, LET US PROPHESY ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF OUR FAITH; 'having gifts differing according to the grace tha...
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...
HAVING THEN GIFTS DIFFERING ACCORDING TO THE GRACE THAT IS GIVEN TO US; or, seeing we have different gifts and offices, according as the grace of God hath bestowed them upon us, let us use them aright...
And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith [It would be as unreasonable and unwise to give all C...
Tertullian On Modesty Much more aptly would they have matched the Christian with the elder, and the Jew with the younger son, "according to the analogy of faith,"[96]...
Romans 12:6 Having G2192 (G5723) then G1161 gifts G5486 differing G1313 according G2596 grace G5485 given G1325 ...
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...
‘And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us.' These gifts are not natural gifts, they are charismata. The naturally gifted may not be spiritual and may become a danger to t...
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 12:6. BUT HAVING GIFTS, or, ‘having, however,' etc. Some would connect this verse grammatically with ‘we are' (Romans 12:5), but it seems better to begin a new sentence here, and to supply the...
DIFFERING (διαφορα). Old adjective from διαφερω, to differ, to vary. So Hebrews 9:10.ACCORDING TO THE PROPORTION OF OUR FAITH (κατα την αναλογιαν της πιστεως). The same use of πιστις (faith) as in...
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...
SO WE ARE TO USE OUR DIFFERENT GIFTS. Each one in the messianic community has his duties, just as the hand or foot or eye of the body. Compare 1 Corinthians 12:4-7. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GRACE. Compa...
_Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us._ GIFTS OF GRACE 1. Their common source. 2. Diverse character. 3. Liberal distribution. 4. Faithful exercise. 5. Happy inf...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 12:6 On the gift of PROPHECY, see notes on Acts 21:4; 21:10–11;...
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 1:5; 1 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Corinthians 12:28;...
Prophecy. See on prophet, Luke 7:26. In the New Testament, as in the Old, the prominent idea is not prediction, but the inspired delivery of warning, exhortation, instruction, judging, and making mani...
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....
Having then gifts differing according to the grace which is given us — Gifts are various: grace is one. Whether it be prophecy — This, considered as an extraordinary gift, is that whereby heavenly mys...
As if our apostle had said, "Seeing it has pleased God to appoint distinct officers in his church, and to furnish those officers with various degrees of gifts, and not to make all equal either in gift...