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Your Role is God's Design
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse emphasizes God's absolute sovereignty in designing the church. Your position, gifts, and function are not accidental but are deliberately assigned by God 'as it has pleased him.' To be dissatisfied with your role, as John Calvin notes, is to challenge God's perfect and wise arrangement.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 12:18
18th Century
Theologian
Has God set the members, etc. God has formed the body, with its various members, as he saw would best conduce to the harmony and usefulnes…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 12:18
But now (νυν δε). But as things are, in contrast to that absurdity.
Hath God set (ο θεος εθετο). Second ao…
Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 12:18–21
19th Century
Preacher
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? B…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 12:18
Paul now emphasizes the necessity of having diversity in a body for it to operate as one. Each part (such as the eye or the ear) must be willing to…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 12:18
16th Century
Theologian
But now God hath placed. Here we have another argument, taken from the appointment of God. “It has pleased God that the body should consis…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 12:18
17th Century
Pastor
But now has God set the members
The members of a natural body, as they are all made and fashioned by God in the form…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 12:12–26
17th Century
Minister
Christ and His church form one body, as Head and members. Christians become members of this body by baptism. The outward rite is of divine institut…