The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the CorinthiansDods, Marcus
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The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the Corinthians
Dods, Marcus
Bible. Corinthians, 1st -- Commentaries
"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. Wherefore I give you to
understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth
Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord,
but by the Holy Ghost. 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 God which worketh all in all. But the
manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit
withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to
another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another
faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the
same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another
prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers
kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: but
all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to
every man severally as He will. 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 body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether
we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one
Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot
shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it
therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am
not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the
body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If
the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God
set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased
Him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But
now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot
say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to
the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of
the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: and those
members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon
these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have
more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but
God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant
honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism
in the body; but that the members should have the same care one
for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members
suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members
rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in
particular.
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