Charles Rose Commentaries
1 Corinthians 12:4
διαίρεσις (G1243) распределение, разделение, наделение (RP; BAGD; MM; GELTS, 103), разница, разнообразие (Conzelmann).
διαίρεσις (G1243) распределение, разделение, наделение (RP; BAGD; MM; GELTS, 103), разница, разнообразие (Conzelmann).
Verse 1 Corinthians 12:4. _THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS_] χαρισματωνυ _Gracious_ _endowments_, leading to _miraculous_ results; such as the gift of prophecy, speaking different tongues, c. And these...
NOW THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS - There are different endowments conferred on Christians. For the meaning of the word “gifts,” see the note at Romans 1:11; compare Romans 5:15; Romans 6:23;...
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...
Having given a criterion for detecting the spurious, Paul proceeds to discuss the gifts. There are diversities in the manifestation but none in the source. The same Spirit is manifested in manifold gi...
THE CONFESSION OF THE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)...
There are distinctions between different kinds of special gifts, but there is one and the same Spirit. There are distinctions between different kinds of service, but there is one and the same Lord. Th...
DIVERSITIES. Greek. _diairesis._ Only here and verses: 1 Corinthians 12:5. Compare _hairesis,_ 1 Corinthians 11:19. GIFTS. App-184. SPIRIT. App-101. In these verses:...
1 Corinthians 12:1-11. Spiritual Gifts; their origin and character "We have often to remind ourselves that this Epistle was addressed to a Church in a state of faction. One cause of rivalry was the me...
ΔΙΑΙΡΈΣΕΙΣ. This word is variously translated in the A.V., according to the custom of the translators, _differences_ and _diversities_, in this passage. It signifies originally the _act of dividing_....
1 Corinthians 12:1-11. SPIRITUAL GIFTS; THEIR ORIGIN AND CHARACTER ‘We have often to remind ourselves that this Epistle was addressed to a Church in a state of faction. One cause of rivalry was the me...
_MANY MEMBERS WITH DIFFERENT GIFTS 1 CORINTHIANS 12:1-11:_ Sadly the brethren at Corinth were divided over "men." Paul wanted it understood that God had given different spiritual gifts to different me...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 12:1-11. Now concerning spiritual gifts. brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 2 Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Source of Diversity (1 Corinthians 12:4-11) 4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; 6and there ar...
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS - i:e., the one Spirit is refracted into various spiritual endowments unique to the several members (); some altogether...
21 The phrase..the Lord's _ supper_ " is misleading. Supper denotes an _ evening _ meal, but the word here employed has no such significance, though its first observance was at night. The word denotes...
_(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...
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...
(4-6) NOW THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS. — Although conversion is identical in every case, yet afterwards there are spiritual gifts which vary according to individual capacity and character, but they...
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...
§ 39. THE VARIOUS CHARISMS OF THE ONE SPIRIT. In treating of the questions of Church order discussed in this Div. of the Ep., the Ap. penetrates from the outward and visible to that which is innermost...
“But,” while the Spirit prompts in all Christians the simultaneous confession _Jesus is Lord_, this unity of faith bears multiform fruit in “distributions of grace-gifts, services, workings”. These ar...
DIFFERING SPIRITUAL GIFTS 1 Corinthians 12:1 Each believer, being an heir of God, has the _same amount of grace_ placed to his credit in the heavenly bank, on which he can draw in time of need. This...
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 Purpose of Spiritual Gifts Different gifts allowed their possesser to accomplish different tasks, but one Spirit gave all gifts. Further, the apostle said different services were rendered by Chris...
(4) Now there are diversities of gifts, but the (d) same Spirit. (4) In the second place, he lays another foundation, that is, that these gifts are different, as the functions also are different and...
There are diversities of grace. Literally, divisions of grace; but all from the same spirit, from the same Lord, from the same God: and all these gifts are designed, and to be made use of for the prof...
“Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5. And there are differences of administrations, and the same Lord. 6. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which w...
2. THE UNITY OF SPIRITUAL FORCES IN THEIR DIVERSITY. VERS. 4-12. The first and most profound diversity which strikes the mind as it contemplates the display of Divine power within the Church, is the d...
(4) Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. (5) And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. (6) And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God wh...
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...
_NEW NEEDS—NEW METHODS_ ‘Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.’ 1 Corinthians 12:4 This is a lesson of surpassing moment to the Church in these trying times. We need courage, we...
_THREE AND ONE_ ‘Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same...
4._Now there are diversities of gifts _The symmetry of the Church (730) consists, so to speak, of a manifold unity, (731) that is, when the variety of gifts is directed to the same object, as in music...
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...
NOW THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS,.... Of spiritual ones, as in 1 Corinthians 12:1 which spring from the free grace, and good will and pleasure of God, and are not owing to the merits of men; and the...
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. Ver. 4. _But the same Spirit_] As the divers smell of flowers come from the same influence, and the divers sounds in the organ from the same b...
_Now there are diversities of gifts_ Χαρισματων, _gifts of grace_, both as to kind and degree; _but the same Spirit_ Divers streams, but all from one fountain. This verse speaks of the Holy Ghost, the...
DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS, BUT THE SAME SPIRIT; throughout the whole of this chapter the apostle labors to show, first, the unity of these gifts, as all having the same Spirit for their author, and all con...
OF THE USE AND PURPOSE OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS. All spiritual gifts from God:...
NOW THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS, BUT THE SAME SPIRIT....
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...
NOW THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS, BUT THE SAME SPIRIT. 'diversities' -'varieties' (NASV); 'Old word for distinctions, differences, distributions' (Robertson p. 168) Gifts differ, or different gift...
1-11 Spiritual gifts were extraordinary powers bestowed in the first ages, to convince unbelievers, and to spread the gospel. Gifts and graces greatly differ. Both were freely given of God. But where...
GIFTS signifieth the same thing with habits, or powers, or abilities to actions; our actions being either natural, as eating, drinking, sleeping, &c., or moral, or spiritual. These powers are either n...
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II yet as to us "there are diversities of gifts, differences of administrations, and diversities of operations; "[243] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV But the apostl...
1 Corinthians 12:4 G1161 are G1526 (G5748) diversities G1243 gifts G5486 but G1161 same G846 Spirit G4151
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...
'Now there are diversities of gifts (charismata), but the same Spirit. And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord. And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, who works...
_Second principle:_ ‘Spiritual gifts, though diverse in character, have one Divine source.' Ver. 4. NOW THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS, BUT THE SAME SPIRIT to whose peculiar department it belongs, in...
DIVERSITIES (διαιρεσεις). Old word for distinctions, differences, distributions, from διαιρεω, to distribute, as διαιρουν (dividing, distributing) in verse 1 Corinthians 12:11. Only here in the N.T...
GIFTS Compare (Ephesians 4:8); (Ephesians 4:11); (Ephesians 4:12). The Spirit gives gifts for service to men, Christ gives the gifted men to the churches....
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 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...
THERE ARE DIFFERENT KINDS. "Because the spiritual gifts all come from the one Spirit, they are all equally _divine,_ even though different....
_Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit._ DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS 1. The glory of the Apostolic Church was not merely in her faith, zeal, conversions, or martyrdoms; but above all, and...
_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
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 12:4 SPIRIT... LORD... GOD. A Trinitarian reference to the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus, and God the Father (compare...
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...
_Now there are diversities of gifts._ One grace is given to one, another to another, but they all proceed from the same Spirit. VER. 5. _And there are differences of administrations_. There are differ...
_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 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Corinthians 12:8; 1 Peter 4:10; Ephesians 4:4;...
Diversities [δ ι α ι ρ ε σ ε ι ς]. Only here in the New Testament. It may also be rendered distributions. There is no objection to combining both meanings, a distribution of gifts implying a diversity...
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
There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit — Divers streams, but all from one fountain. This verse speaks of the Holy Ghost, the next of Christ, the sixth of God the Father. The apostle treat...
That is, there is. great variety and diversity of spiritual gifts, but it is the same Spirit from whence they all proceed and flow; and there are different administrations and offices in the church, b...