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But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
But now (νυν δε). But as things are, in contrast to that absurdity.
Hath God set (ο θεος εθετο). Second ao…
19th Century
Baptist
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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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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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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…
13th Century
Catholic
Having laid out the distinction among spiritual gifts, the Apostle now explains it using the analogy of a natural body. He first presents the analo…
