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1 Corinthians 12:1–2. About the spiritual ones, - for they were awarded the gifts of the Spirit and inspired - know your former humiliation, since you were pagans and worshiped dumb idols. 1 Corinthians 12:3. Like no one speaking in the Spirit of God and in the name of Jesus performing miracles of the Spirit, will not say anathema to Christ: so no one can say: Lord Jesus, if not by the Holy Spirit. A person in whom the gifts of the Spirit are active can proclaim and say: The Lord is Jesus. 1 Corinthians 12:4–5. sharing gifts... [of grace], ministries and there is strength between you, and there is division between grace and grace, 1 Corinthians 12:6. – one and the same, 1 Corinthians 12:8. So one and 37 speech of “wisdom”, 1 Corinthians 12:9. Another is given faith, to others the grace of healing. given the ability to strengthen others during testing; in order to reveal and indicate what will happen in subsequent times; that is, good government in the church; to another there are different kinds of languages, to another the interpretation of the same languages. 1 Corinthians 12:11. This... same... everything from one and the same Spirit, who gives and divides according to His will. Moreover, the apostle appeals to the proof of this idea by means of examples taken from the body. Although the operation of all these gifts is not required at the same time, each of them is very necessary in its own time. And even if one of the gifts was greater than the other in that it was more necessary for a certain person and time, however, under the same condition, each gift turns out to be necessary (1 Cor. 12:12). So, although the gracious gifts of the Spirit were poured out on Jews and Gentiles, on slaves and free, yet 1 Corinthians 12:13. We are... filled with one Spirit... and by Him, and for His sake, we all became members of the Spirit. Therefore, the gifts that are highest in you cannot exercise their ministry unless they receive revelation from the gift that is the least among us. Just as the head cannot say to the feet: I do not need you, - for we have members that seem weaker, but turn out to be necessary for us, and others that, although considered less noble, we must give them all the more care - so whether the gift is great or small, whether the person in whom it acts is noble or ignorant, but God proportioned the Church, like the body, and gave greater honor to the lesser, so that there would be no division in the very body of the Church, as there is no any discord in the members of the body (1 Cor. 12:14-25). But since they competed in this, trying to surpass each other, the apostle finds himself forced to limit their arrogant boasting of his gifts and exalts above all gifts love, which remained neglected by very many. If you want, he says, to compete with each other, then not in those smaller gifts that are not yours, but on which you are focused, but in the greater (virtues) that you have not yet achieved. So, 1 Corinthians 12:31. I... the way... I'll show you, leading to life and better than how you wander. You might be interested in: