Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
1 Corinthians — A pastoral letter answering a long list of questions and problems — unity, ethics, worship, and the resurrection — written to a gifted but divided church.
The walk5
Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page, and every stop travels with its words.
Through
1 Corinthians 12:10to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.
leads to
So, my brothers, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues.
And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices3
Have all the gifts of healing?.... No; when these gifts were in being, all had them not.
John Gill· Exposition of the Entire Bible, 1771reformed
Then when he says, Are all apostles? he clarifies the distinction among these ministries, saying, Are all in the Church apostles? As if to say: No! Are all teachers? This shows the variety of these ministries: "In the fullness of his knowledge the Lord distinguished …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on 1 Corinthians, 1274patristic
Only of pride cometh contention. These contests in the church of Corinth sprang from this original. It was a quarrel about precedency (as most quarrels among Christians are, with whatever pretences they are gilded over); and it is no wonder that a quarrel about precedence should extinguish charity.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
The verses this one reaches4
And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.
to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,
Therefore, the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.