From this union of the members in the body natural, of all the members proceedeth a natural sympathy, that if one member suffereth, all are afflicted, and ready to contribute to the relief and help each of other; and likewise the honour that is reflected on the body, is reflected on all the parts, and all rejoice in the good that affecteth any one single member.
Verse 26. _AND WHETHER ONE MEMBER SUFFER_] As there is a mutual exertion for the general defence, so there is a mutual sympathy. If the _eye_, the _hand_, the _foot_, c., be injured, the _whole man_ g...
AND WHETHER ONE MEMBER SUFFER - One member, or part of the body. ALL THE MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT - This, we all know, is the case with the body. A pain in the foot, the hand, or the head excites deep s...
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)...
Just as the body is one, although it has many members, and just as all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by the one Spirit we have all been baptized i...
WHETHER. if at least. Greek. _eite._ Compare App-118. SUFFER WITH IT. suffer together. Greek. _sumpascho._ Only here and Romans 8:17. OR. Greek. _eite_, as above. HONOURED. glorified. See 1 Corinth...
_And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it_ This is a matter of the most ordinary experience in the human body. A pain in any portion, even the most remote from the seats of life,...
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...
ΚΑῚ ΕἼΤΕ ΠΆΣΧΕΙ ἝΝ ΜΈΛΟΣ. This is a matter of the most ordinary experience in the human body. A pain in any portion, even the most remote from the seats of life, affects the whole. A glance at history...
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...
ΠΆΣΧΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΆΣΧΩ (G3958) страдать, ΣΥΜΠΆΣΧΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΜΠΆΣΚΩ (G4841) страдать вместе, ΔΟΞΆΖΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΔΟΞΆΖΩ (G1392) почитать, прославлять; _pass._...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Maintaining the Unity of the Church_ (12-31) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 12:12-31. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one...
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...
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. AND-ACCORDINGLY-ALL ... SUFFER WITH IT. 'When a thorn enters the heel, th...
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, t...
ALL THE MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT] What is true of the human body, through the nervous connexion of all. its parts, should be true of the Church: cp. Romans 12:5. 27-31. Application. The various offices...
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 leav...
AND WHETHER ONE MEMBER SUFFER. — This verse completes the statement of the perfect unity of the members in one body and with one another. They are not only physically joined together, but they are so...
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...
illustrates the unselfish solicitude of the bodily organs; the nervous connexion makes it a veritable συμπάθεια (συμπάσχει). Plato applies the same analogy to the State in a striking passage in his _P...
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 w...
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...
Division Is Undesirable Clearly, the facts Paul presented proved God created the body in such a way that division is undesirable. Every member of the physical body feels for the other members. If one...
(13) And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. (13) Now he applies this same doctrine to the Corinthians without any al...
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...
“And whether one member suffer, all the other members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the others rejoice with it.” Καί : _and really._ “This mutual care cannot be wanting for the body,...
(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...
26._Whether one member suffers _“Such a measure of _fellow-feeling.” ( _ συμπάθεια _,) _(761) says he, “is to be seen in the human body, that, if any inconvenience is felt by any member, all the other...
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...
AND WHETHER ONE MEMBER SUFFER,.... Pain; even the meanest, lowest, and most distant, as the foot or hand, toe or finger: ALL THE MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT; are more or less affected therewith, and bear...
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. Ver. 26. _And whether one man suffer_] This spiritual sympathy, _mirum est q...
_For our comely_ and graceful _parts have no need_ Of being so adorned, as they appear to greater advantage uncovered; _but God hath tempered the body together_ Συνεκερασε, hath attempered and united...
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...
AND WHETHER ONE MEMBER SUFFER, ALL THE MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT; OR ONE MEMBER BE HONORED, ALL THE MEMBERS REJOICE WITH IT. In the covering and adorning of the dishonorable, indecorous parts of the body...
The application of the figure:...
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...
AND WHETHER ONE MEMBER SUFFERETH, ALL THE MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT; OR ONE MEMBER IS HONORED, ALL THE MEMBERS REJOICE WITH IT. 'one member suffereth' -'When. thorn..enters the heel, the whole body feel...
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...
And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it....
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians but call them back as suffering and straying members, that ye may save your whole body. For by so acting ye shall edify yourselves.[67] Tertullian On Repentanc...
1 Corinthians 12:26 And G2532 if G1535 one G1520 member G3196 suffers G3958 (G5719) all G3956 members G31
'And whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it.' Indeed the literal body is so made one that when one member of a literal b...
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 initi...
1 Corinthians 12:24-26 . WHEREAS OUR COMELY PARTS HAVE NO NEED, etc. The language, it will be observed, is studiously so framed as to apply equally to the natural and the spiritual body....
SUFFER WITH IT (συνπασχε). Medical term in this sense in Hippocrates and Galen. In N.T only here and Romans 8:17 (of our suffering with Christ). One of Solon's Laws allowed retaliation by any one f...
1 Corinthians 12:26 Social Responsibility. There are three great principles which ought to govern a Christian's thought in his estimate of a great criminal case. I. Of these the first is, that every...
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...
1 Corinthians 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. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one b...
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 manifesta...
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...
AND SO THERE IS NO DIVISION IN THE BODY. The physical body becomes both a symbol of and a basis for the spiritual group. _Chrysostom_ writes: "When the head is crowned, the whole man feels itself glor...
_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...
_There should be no schism in the body._ SCHISM MAY BE DESTRUCTIVE A screw in the crank of an engine of an express train at full speed thus addressed itself to the surrounding machinery: “I’m very sm...
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
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, “_spir...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 12:1.—1 Corinthians 14:1.—ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE
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 gre...
1 Peter 3:8; 2 Corinthians 11:28; 2 Corinthians 11:29; Galatians 6:2;...
Suffer with it. Compare Plutarch of Solon's Laws : "If any one was beaten or maimed or suffered any violence, any man that would and was able might prosecute the wrongdoer; intending by this to accust...
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