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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...
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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...
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THE CONFESSION OF THE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)...
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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...
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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...
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COMPARISON OF THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE UNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH...
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_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...
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ΝΫ́Ν ΔΈ (G3570; G1161) но теперь (_см._ 1
Corinthians 12:18). "Теперь" является
логическим, а "но" — противительным
(Fee)....
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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...
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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...
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But now are they many members, yet but one body.
NOW - as the case really is; in contrast to the supposition (: cf. ).
MANY MEMBERS - mutually dependent....
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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...
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12:20 one. (d-10) Or '[There are] many members, and one body.'...
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_(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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 12:19-20 rehearse the doctrine of 1 Corinthians
12:12-14, now vividly illustrated by 1 Corinthians 12:15 ff., _viz_.,
that a _manifold variety of organs_ i
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§ 40. THE ONE BODY, OF MANY MEMBERS. The manifold graces, ministries,
workings (1 Corinthians 12:4 ff.), that proceed from the action of the
Holy Spirit in the Christian community, stand not only in c...
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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...
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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...
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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 me...
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“But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as
it hath pleased Him. 19. But if they were all one member, where were
the body? 20. But now are there many members and one body.”
Th...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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20._Many members _—_one body _He repeats this the oftener, because
the stress of the whole question lies here — that the unity of the
body is of such a nature as cannot be maintained but by a diversit...
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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...
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BUT NOW ARE THEY MANY MEMBERS,.... Of different make and shape, in
different parts and places, and of different use and service:
YET BUT ONE BODY; all are united together, and make up one complete
bo...
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But now _are they_ many members, yet but one body.
Ver. 20. _But now are they many members, &c._] 1. Use; 2. Necessity;
3. Honour; 4. Comeliness, 5. Mutual consent, -commend these things.
Let every m...
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_For the body is not one member, but many_ All of which are necessary,
that the various sorts of offices belonging to the body may be all
performed: thus there must be different gifts and offices in t...
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The need of all the members:...
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BUT NOW ARE THEY MANY MEMBERS, YET BUT ONE BODY....
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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...
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BUT NOW THEY ARE MANY MEMBERS, BUT ONE BODY.
'But now' -the way that God has set things up in His wisdom. (1
Corinthians 12:11) in contrast to the foolishness displayed by human
thinking when it is...
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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...
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The multiplicity of members, having several uses and offices for the
service of the whole body, do not make a multiplicity of bodies, the
body still is but one....
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But now they are many members, but one body. [The necessity for
diversity is here shown. If all the church were teachers, who could be
taught? If all were healers, who could receive healing? If all we...
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1 Corinthians 12:20 But G1161 now G3568 G3303 many G4183 members G3196
yet G1161 one G1520 body...
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'But now they are many members, but one body. And the eye cannot say
to the hand, "I have no need of you", or again the head to the feet,
"I have no need of you".
So the body being made up of many dif...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 12:19-21 . AND IF THEY WERE ALL ONE MEMBER, etc. As in 1
Corinthians 12:15-16, the rebuke seems to be for _envying_ the gifts
of the more eminent, so here the rebuke is addressed to the...
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MANY MEMBERS, BUT ONE BODY
(πολλα μελη, εν δε σωμα). The argument in a nutshell,
in one epigram....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AS IT IS. "Facts are stubborn things!" Paul firmly states: there are
many parts, and one body. Compare 1 Corinthians 10:17 and note. The
happiness of the _one body_ results from the existence of all i...
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_But now are they many members, yet but one body._
THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST
I. Their unity. “One body.”
II. Their diversity. The eye, the hand, etc.
III. Mutual dependence.
IV. Admirable...
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FOR BY ONE SPIRIT WE ARE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY.
OF UNION WITH CHRIST
Consider--
I. How Christ’s redemption is applied to a sinner. By uniting the
sinner to Christ (1 Corinthians 1:30). Men must...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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_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...
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EXPOSITION
1 Corinthians 12:1.—1 Corinthians 14:1.—ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND
THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE
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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...
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1 Corinthians 12:20...
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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
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But one body — And it is a necessary consequence of this unity, that
the several members need one another....