{"id":2425,"date":"2013-07-24T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2022-04-18T16:07:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T22:07:31","slug":"1-corinthians-1227-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2425","title":{"rendered":"1 Corinthians 12:27-31"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>27\u00a0<\/sup>Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>28\u00a0<\/sup>And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>29\u00a0<\/sup>Are\u00a0all apostles?\u00a0Are\u00a0all prophets?\u00a0Are\u00a0all teachers?\u00a0Are\u00a0all workers of miracles?<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>30\u00a0<\/sup>Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>31\u00a0<\/sup>But earnestly desire the best\u00a0gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>All believers together are the one body of Christ, and each believer is individually a member of that body (v.27).<\/h3>\n<h3>apostles (v.28) \u2014 those who had seen the Lord, especially after His resurrection, and were called by God to witness to that fact<\/h3>\n<h3>prophets (v.28) \u2014 those who received supernatural revelation from God to give believers<\/h3>\n<h3>teachers (v.28) \u2014 replaced prophets after Scripture was complete \u2014 received revelation from the Word<\/h3>\n<h3>miracles (v.28) \u2014 supernatural powers<\/h3>\n<h3>helps (v.28) \u2014 support, assistance<\/h3>\n<h3>administrations (v.28) \u2014 steering, guiding<\/h3>\n<h3>Verses 29 and 30 consist of rhetorical questions all of which have a negative answer.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">It should be observed that the first part, at least, of the list of verse 28 is given strictly in order: &#8220;first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly, teachers, after that miracles, then gifts,&#8221; etc. This should be clearly borne in mind in interpreting <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3746\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ephesians 4:11<\/span><\/a> as well as in determining the value of tongues in this passage, for there are also differences in the value of &#8220;the gifts of the Spirit.&#8221; Thus the apostle urges these saints to &#8220;covet earnestly the best gifts&#8221; (v.31). \u2014 Stam, page 217.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27\u00a0Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. 28\u00a0And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues. 29\u00a0Are\u00a0all apostles?\u00a0Are\u00a0all prophets?\u00a0Are\u00a0all teachers?\u00a0Are\u00a0all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2425\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6929,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/6929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}