18But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
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And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-26)The apostle here makes out the truth of what was above asserted, and puts the gifted men among the Corinthians in mind of their duty, by comparing the church of Christ to a human body. I. By telling us that one body may have many members, and that the many members of the same body make but one body (1 Cor. 12:12): As the body is one, and hath many members, and all members of that one body, being m…
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