Romans 12:4-8
1599 Geneva Bible
4 [a]For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not one office,
5 So we being many, are one body in Christ, and every one, one anothers members.
6 (A)[b]Seeing then that we have gifts that are divers, according to the grace that is given unto us, whether we have prophecy, let us prophesy according to the [c]portion of faith.
7 Or an office, let us wait on the office: or he that [d]teacheth, on teaching:
8 Or he that [e]exhorteth, on exhortation: he that [f]distributeth, let him do it (B)with simplicity: he that [g]ruleth, with diligence: he that [h]showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.
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- Romans 12:4 There is a double reason of the precept going afore: the one is because God hath not committed everything to be done of every man: and therefore, he doeth backwardly, and not only unprofitably, but also to the great disprofit of others, wearieth himself and others, which passeth the bounds of his vocation: the other is, for that this diversity and inequality of vocations and gifts, redoundeth to our commodity seeing that the same is therefore instituted and appointed, that we should be bound one to another. Whereupon it followeth that no man ought to be grieved thereat, seeing that the use of every private gift is common.
- Romans 12:6 That which he spake before in general, he applieth particularly to the holy functions, wherein men offend with greater danger. And he divideth them into two sorts, to wit, into Prophets, and Deacons, and again he divideth the Prophets into doctors, and Pastors. And of Deacons he maketh three sorts: to wit, the one to be such as are (as it were) treasurers of the Church coffers, whom he calleth properly Deacons: the other to be the governors of discipline, who are called Seniors or Elders: the third to be such as properly served in the help of the poor, of which sort the company of widows were.
- Romans 12:6 That every man observe the measure of that which is revealed unto him.
- Romans 12:7 Whose office only is to expound the Scriptures.
- Romans 12:8 Who in other places is called the Pastor.
- Romans 12:8 To wit, the alms, that he distribute them faithfully, and without respect of person.
- Romans 12:8 The Elders of the Church.
- Romans 12:8 They that are busied about tending on the poor, must do it with cheerfulness, lest they add sorrow to sorrow.
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