That there should be no schism. — The existence of differences of gifts in the Church had been used by the Corinthians to cause schisms, exalting some gifts and depreciating others, when this very variety in the Church ought, as was the intention of variety in the human body, to create a mutual dependence, which would promote unity.
Verse 25. _THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO SCHISM IN THE BODY_] That there should be no unnecessary and independent part in the whole human machine, and that every part should contribute something to the gen...
THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO SCHISM - Margin, “Division;” see note on 1 Corinthians 11:18. The sense here is, that the body might be united, and be one harmonious whole; that there should be no separate in...
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...
THAT. In order that. Greek. _hina_. SCHISM. Greek. _schisma._ See 1 Corinthians 1:10. SHOULD HAVE THE SAME CARE. should care (Greek. _merimnao._ See 1 Corinthians 7:32) the same. ONE FOR ANOTHER. on...
_schism_ i.e. discordance of aims and interests. See notes on 1 Corinthians 1:10; 1 Corinthians 11:18. God had specially provided against this by giving to those who occupy the less honourable and orn...
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...
COMPARISON OF THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE UNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH...
25. [ἓν] after ΔΟΞΆΖΕΤΑΙ, rec. with CDEFG Vetus Lat. Vulg. Peshito Origen. Text אAB. 25. ΣΧΊΣΜΑ, i.e. discordance of aims and interests. See notes on 1 Corinthians 1:10; 1 Corinthians 11:18. God had s...
_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...
Ή _praes. conj. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ быть (G1510). _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) выражает цель, в данном случае отрицательную, ΣΧΊΣΜΑ разделение, ведущее к расколу (_см._ 1 Corinthians 1:10). ΜΕΡΙΜΝΏΣΙΝ _praes. con...
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...
That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. NO SCHISM - (cf. ) - no disunion, referring to the "divisions," . CARE ONE FOR ANOTHER...
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...
NO SCHISM] contrast 1 Corinthians 1:10; 1 Corinthians 11:18, where see note....
_(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...
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...
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...
That there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same (r) care one for another. (r) Should bestow their operations and offices to the profit and preservation of the...
But, as to functions which of themselves honour those who fill them, there is nothing to add to this intrinsic honour. They resemble the beautiful parts of the body, which would be wronged were they c...
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...
(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...
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...
THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO SCHISM IN THE BODY..... No complaint of one member against another, as useless and unnecessary; no murmuring on that account; no tumults and rioting; no rebellion and insurrect...
That there should be no schism in the body; but _that_ the members should have the same care one for another. Ver. 25. _Should have the same care_] As if the heel do but ache, the whole condoleth and...
_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...
NO SCHISM; no division or contest with one another. They have one common interest, and the welfare of each is for the good of all. So it should be with the different members of the church of Christ....
THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO SCHISM IN THE BODY, BUT THAT THE MEMBERS SHOULD HAVE THE SAME CARE ONE FOR ANOTHER....
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...
SCHISM: Or, division...
THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO SCHISM IN THE BODY; BUT THAT THE MEMBERS SHOULD HAVE THE SAME CARE ONE FOR ANOTHER. 'that' -'God's purpose for creating the body in such. way that each gift depended upon the...
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...
By SCHISM is here meant division, and that also must be expounded figuratively, and it is expounded in the next words, THAT THE MEMBERS SHOULD HAVE THE SAME CARE ONE FOR ANOTHER; that though the membe...
that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another....
1 Corinthians 12:25 that G3363 be G5600 (G5753) no G3363 schism G4978 in G1722 body G4983 but G235 mem
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...
For God, in tempering (combining) the body together in Christ, has given more abundant honour to those parts which were lacking, so that all would be as one and there might be no schism, so that all m...
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....
THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO SCHISM (ινα μη η σχισμα). Purpose of God in his plan for the body. Trouble in one organ affects the whole body. A headache may be due to trouble elsewhere and usually is.HAV...
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...
_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...
_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...
_That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another._ No schism, such as that related by Menenius, but that all should have the same care for th...
_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 1:10; 1 Corinthians 3:3; 2 Corinthians 13:11; 2 Corinthians 7:12;...
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