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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: You know how very quick the hand always is to go up to the eye when it is in danger You do not have to wait to tell it what to do; but, in an instant, the hand is up, for there is a fellow feeling between the members of the same body....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the eye cannot say unto the hand,.... Every member of the natural body is useful and necessary. The eye, the seat of the sense of seeing, cannot say to the communicating and working hand, I have no need of thee: I can do without thee: so the seers and overseers of the church, the ministers of the Gospel, cannot say to the liberal and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: and those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. They are covered and concealed; and so we...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Nay, much more those members of the body,.... The apostle, in a beautiful gradation, proceeds to take notice of such parts of the body as are more weak, dishonourable, and uncomely, showing the necessity and usefulness of them: which seem to be more feeble; than others, do not consist of a strong bony substance, and are not fenced with sinews, as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: and those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need but God both tempered the body together, having given more...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And those members of the body,.... As the back parts of it: which we think to be less honourable; though greatly useful, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; by clothing them, for a man's garments are his honour and glory; [See comments on Matthew 6:29], so the poor members of Christ's church, who are thought to be, though they really are...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For our comely parts have no need,.... As the face, eyes, nose, lips, cheeks, c. which stand in no need of an external covering, of any outward ornament: so such as are blessed with the bounties of nature and providence, with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and are eminent for grace and holiness, and are enabled to walk worthy of their calling, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: Here is a lesson for us with regard to church-fellowship,—always to take most notice of those who are the least noticeable, and to be most gentle with those who require the most tenderness. You know that there...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That there should be no schism in the body..... No complaint of one member against another, as useless and unnecessary; no murmuring on that account; no tumults and rioting; no rebellion and insurrection of one against another; no dissension, no division. The use Menenius (e) Agrippa made of this simile, applying it to the body politic, as the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That there should be no schism in the body; That is, no division, no rent in the body.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. I am afraid that this second half of the verse refers to a duty which is more neglected than is the other. It is an easier thing to suffer with those that suffer...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. We have heard this text urged by some who are in the Church of England as a proof that we are wrong in departing from it. They tell us that there should be no schism in the body; we beg to tell them that there is no schism in the body that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And whether one member suffer,.... Pain; even the meanest, lowest, and most distant, as the foot or hand, toe or finger: all the members suffer with it; are more or less affected therewith, and bear part of the distress; as is easily discerned, by their different forms and motions on such an occasion: so when anyone member of the mystical body is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; Is that true of our churches? I am afraid not. The members of the one Church of Christ have not been brought to that unity of feeling and sympathy which they ought to have.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now ye are the body of Christ,.... Not his natural body, which his Father prepared for him, in which he bore our sins on the tree, and which was offered up once for all; nor his sacramental body, or the bread in the supper, which is a representation of his body; but his body mystical, the church; not that the Corinthians were the whole of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And God hath set some in the church,.... As before the apostle gives an account of the various different gifts of the Spirit, qualifying men for service in the church of Christ, here he enumerates the several offices and officers: first apostles; as were the twelve disciples, and Paul the apostle; men that were immediately sent by Christ himself,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Are all apostles?.... No some are prophets, as distinct from apostles; and some are teachers, as distinct from them both, and some are neither: are all prophets? no; some are apostles, above them, and some are teachers, inferior to them; and but very few there were who had that peculiar character and gift: are all teachers? no; the far greater...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Have all the gifts of healing?.... No; when these gifts were in being, all had them not. When anointing with oil, in order to heal the sick, was in use, it was only performed by the elders of the church, not by the common members of it, who were to be sent for by the sick on this occasion: do all speak with tongues? no; it was not true in fact, as...