KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
1 Corinthians 12:29–31
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1 Corinthians 12:29
29Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
29 Are all Apostles? are all Prophets? are all Teachers? are all ‖workers of miracles?
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1 Corinthians 12:30
30Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
30Haue all the gifts of healing? doe all speake with tongues? doe all interpret?
1 Corinthians 12:31
31But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
31But couet earnestly the best gifts: And yet shew I vnto you a more excellent way.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Corinthians 12:29
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons sent forth with authority; messengers or ambassadors, especially those commissioned by Christ.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Especially, an inspired teacher; He that prophesies.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
Persons who instruct others.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons who work, labor, or perform deeds.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Extraordinary works or signs manifesting power beyond ordinary human ability.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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1 Corinthians 12:30
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Something given or bestowed; a present, endowment, or ability; in some contexts, a bribe.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Tending to cure; mild; mollifying.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To utter words; to say, declare, address, or communicate by speech.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To explain or unfold meaning; to translate words from one language into another.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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1 Corinthians 12:31
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To desire or long for, especially what belongs to another.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Seriously, eagerly, sincerely, or with intense effort.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Something given or bestowed; a present, endowment, or ability; in some contexts, a bribe.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
To show; to make visible, reveal, declare, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Of surpassing worth, goodness, or quality.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 29
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Open the full verse study4Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
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Open the full verse study14For the body is not one member, but many.
15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
19And if they were all one member, where were the body?
20But now are they many members, yet but one body.
From verse 30
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Open the full verse study10To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
From verse 31
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Open the full verse study1THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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Open the full verse study39Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
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Open the full verse study6Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
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Open the full verse study8Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
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Open the full verse study1NOW as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
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Open the full verse study42But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
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Open the full verse study4By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
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