1 Corinthians 12:5 BSB

1 Corinthians 12:5

There are different ministries, but the same Lord.

BSB

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ASV

And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord.

KJV

And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And there are differences of administrations,.... Or ministries; offices in the church, ministered in by different persons, as apostles, prophets, pastors, or teachers and deacons; who were employed in planting and forming of churches, ordaining elders, preaching the word, administering ordinances, and taking care of the poor; for which different gifts were bestowed on them, they not all having the same office.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Of administrations - Margin, “Ministries.” The word properly denotes “ministries;” so that there are different ranks and grades in the ministries which Christ has appointed, to wit, those specified in 1Co 12:9-10, 1Co 12:28. But the same Lord - This refers evidently to the Lord Jesus, by whom these various orders of ministers were appointed, and under whose control they are; see the note at Act 1:24; compare Eph 4:

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
διαιρέσεις	diaireseis	varieties	G1243 →
διακονιῶν	diakoniōn	of services	G1248 →
εἰσιν,	eisin	there are,	G1510 →
καὶ	kai	but	G2532 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
αὐτὸς	autos	same	G846 →
κύριος·	kurios	Lord;	G2962 →

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

G1243diaireseisvarieties3×

The walk

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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
1 Corinthians 8:6
yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and…
leads to
- Romans 11:36
  For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.
- John 1:3
  Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.
- Malachi 2:10
  Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
- Hebrews 1:2–3
  But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.
- Colossians 1:16–17
  For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.