1 Corinthians 12:3 BSB

1 Corinthians 12:3

Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

BSB

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ASV

Wherefore I make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema; and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Basil of Caesarea

ON PSALM 32 (379)

If two yardsticks are compared with each other, their straightness is in agreement. But if a distorted piece of wood is compared with a ruler, the crooked one will be at variance with the straight. Since, therefore, the praise of God is righteous, there is need of a righteous heart, in order that the praise may be fitting and adapted to it. "No one can say 'Jesus is Lord,' except in the Holy Spirit." So how can one offer due praise if one does not have the right spirit in one's heart? HOMILY 15.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Wherefore I give you to understand - I make known to you. The force of this expression is, “I give you this rule to distinguish,” or by which you may know what influences and operations are from God. The design of the passage is, to give them some simple general guide by which they could at once recognize the operations of the Spirit of God, and determine whether they who claimed to be under that operation were really so.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The spiritual man feels Him to be the Source of all blessings (Eph 1:3) and to be severed from Him is to be accursed (Ro 9:3). Lord--acknowledging himself as His servant (Isa 26:13). "Lord" is the Septuagint translation for the incommunicable Hebrew name JEHOVAH.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
διὸ	dio	Therefore	G1352 →
γνωρίζω	gnōrizō	I make known	G1107 →
ὑμῖν	humin	to you	G4771 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
οὐδεὶς	oudeis	no [one]	G3762 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
πνεύματι	pneumati	[the] Spirit	G4151 →
θεοῦ	theou	of God	G2316 →
λαλῶν	lalōn	speaking	G2980 →
λέγει·	legei	says:	G3004 →
ἀνάθεμα	anathema	Accursed [is]	G331 →
Ἰησοῦς,	Iēsous	Jesus,	G2424 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οὐδεὶς	oudeis	no [one]	G3762 →
δύναται	dunatai	is able	G1410 →
εἰπεῖν·	eipein	to say:	G2036 →
κύριος	kurios	Lord	G2962 →
Ἰησοῦς,	Iēsous	Jesus [is],	G2424 →
εἰ	ei	only	G1487 →
μὴ	mē	except	G3361 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
πνεύματι	pneumati	[the] Spirit	G4151 →
ἁγίῳ.	hagiō	Holy.	G40 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 10:9
that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
leads to
- Philippians 2:11
  and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 12:8
  I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.
- Acts 16:31
  They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
- Matthew 10:32–33
  Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.
- 1 John 4:2–3
  By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
Through
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 12:9
  But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of…
- Philippians 4:13
  I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
- 1 Corinthians 15:10
  But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of…