哥林多前书 12:1

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

屬靈的恩賜弟兄們，關於屬靈的恩賜，我不願意你們不明白。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
弟 兄 们 ， 论 到 属 灵 的 恩 赐 ， 我 不 愿 意 你 们 不 明 白 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand about spiritual gifts. ² You know the way you lived before you were believers. You let yourselves be influenced and led away to worship idols—things that could not speak. ³ So I want you to understand that no one who is speaking with the help of God's Spirit says, "Jesus be cursed." And no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," without the help of the Holy Spirit. ⁴ There are different kinds of gifts, but they are all from the same Spirit. ⁵ There are different ways to serve but the same Lord to serve. ⁶ And there are different ways that God works through people but the same God. God works in all of us in everything we do. ⁷ Something from the Spirit can be seen in each person, for the common good. ⁸ The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom, and the same Spirit gives another the ability to speak with knowledge. ⁹ The same Spirit gives faith to one person. And, to another, that one Spirit gives gifts of healing. ¹⁰ The Spirit gives to another person the power to do miracles, to another the ability to prophesy. And he gives to another the ability to know the difference between good and evil spirits. The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak in different kinds of languages and to another the ability to interpret those languages.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

spiritual: 1 Corinthians 12:4-11, 1 Corinthians 14:1-18, 1 Corinthians 14:37, Ephesians 4:11

I would not: 1 Corinthians 10:1, 2 Corinthians 1:8, 1 Thessalonians 4:13, 2 Peter 3:8

Reciprocal: Luke 2:36 - a prophetess Acts 19:2 - We have Romans 1:11 - that Romans 1:13 - General Romans 11:25 - I would 1 Corinthians 2:13 - but

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you. I will make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.

Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and I will place a curse on those who harm you. And all the people on earth will be blessed through you."

Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through that land as far as the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. The Canaanites were living in the land at that time.

Genesis 12:10
At this time there was not much food in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live because there was so little food.

Genesis 12:11
Just before they arrived in Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know you are a very beautiful woman.

Genesis 15:7
God said to Abram, "I am the Lord who led you out of Ur of Babylonia so that I could give you this land to own."

Nehemiah 9:7
"You are the Lord , the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur in Babylonia and named him Abraham.

Isaiah 41:9
I took you from places far away on the earth and called you from a faraway country. I said, ‘You are my servants.' I have chosen you and have not turned against you.

Isaiah 51:2
Look at Abraham, your ancestor, and Sarah, who gave birth to your ancestors. Abraham had no children when I called him, but I blessed him and gave him many descendants.

Ezekiel 33:24
"Human, people who live in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying: ‘Abraham was only one person, yet he was given the land as his own. Surely the land has been given to us, who are many, as our very own.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now concerning spiritual gifts,.... Though the word "gifts" is not in the original text, it is rightly supplied by our translators, as it is in the Arabic version: for the apostle does not mean spiritual graces, nor spiritual words, or doctrines, nor spiritual meats and drinks, nor spiritual men, each of which are mentioned before in this epistle; though the latter is thought by some to be here intended, and that the apostle's view is to show the difference between those that are spiritual, and those that are not; but as spiritual gifts are the subject of the apostle's discourse throughout this chapter, and the two following, they seem very manifestly to be designed here. The apostle having gone through various heads of discourse, which he either of himself, or at the request of others, wrote upon, proceeds to a new subject, that of spiritual gifts, which he seems to have been desired to give his thoughts upon, and advice about; since there were some in this church who were discouraged, because they had not the gifts which some had; and others that had them were elated and puffed up with them, and treated those below them with neglect and contempt; and with a view to both these the apostle writes as follows,

brethren, I would not have you ignorant; neither of the author of these gifts, who is the Spirit of God, who dispenses them according to his sovereign will and pleasure, and not according to the deserts of men, and are not acquired by the industry, or through the merit of any, but are his free grace gifts; nor of the nature of them, for there are differences and diversities of them, some have one, and some another, but no man all; nor of the design and use of them, which is the edification of the whole body; and every gift, though ever so mean, is of service; and therefore as, on the one hand, none ought to be discouraged, so, on the other hand, none should be lifted up with pride, or give way to a boasting spirit.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now concerning - it is now time that I should speak of spiritual endowments. He had no doubt been consulted in regard to them, and probably various questions had been proposed, which he now proceeded to answer.

Spiritual gifts - The word “gifts” is not in the original. The Greek refers to “spiritual” things in general, or to anything that is of a spiritual nature. The whole discussion, however, shows that he refers to the various endowments, gifts, or graces that had been bestowed in different degrees on the members of the church - including the distinctions in graces, and in degrees of office and rank, which had been made in the Christian church in general 1 Corinthians 12:0, as well as the extraordinary endowments of the gift of tongues which had been bestowed upon many, 1 Corinthians 14:0.

I would not have you ignorant - The subject is of so much importance that it demands particular attention and special care; compare the note at 1 Corinthians 10:1. I would not have you ignorant in regard to the nature of those endowments; the spirit with which they should be received; the rules to which they who are thus favored should be subjected; and the feelings and views which should be cherished in all the members of the church in regard to them. Nothing is of more importance in the church than the doctrine respecting the influences and endowments of the Holy Spirit.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XII.

The apostle proceeds to the question of the Corinthians

concerning spiritual gifts, 1.

He calls to their remembrance their former state, and how they

were brought out of it, 2, 3.

Shows that there are diversities of gifts which proceed from

the Spirit, 4.

Diversities of administrations which proceed from the Lord

Jesus, 5.

And diversities of operations which proceed from God, 6.

What these gifts are, and how they are dispensed, 7-11.

Christ is the Head, and the Church his members; and this is

pointed out under the similitude of the human body, 12, 13.

The relation which the members of the body have to each other;

and how necessary their mutual support, 14-26.

The members in the Church, or spiritual body, and their

respective offices, 27-30.

We should earnestly covet the best gifts, 31.

NOTES ON CHAP. XII.

Verse 1 Corinthians 12:1. Now concerning spiritual gifts — This was a subject about which they appear to have written to the apostle, and concerning which there were probably some contentions among them. The words περι των πνευματικων may as well be translated concerning spiritual persons, as spiritual gifts; and indeed the former agrees much better with the context.

I would not have you ignorant. — I wish you fully to know whence all such gifts come, and for what end they are given, that each person may serve the Church in the capacity in which God has placed him, that there may be no misunderstandings and no schism in the body.