1 Corinthians 12:18

God has placed each member in the body exactly as He desired. The arrangement of gifts is His sovereign, deliberate work.

Cross-references · 15

• 1 Cor 12:28God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
• Rom 12:3For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
• 1 Cor 12:11But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
• 1 Cor 3:5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
• Luke 12:32Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
• Ps 135:6Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;
• Luke 10:21In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”
• 1 Cor 12:24whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,
• Isa 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
• 1 Cor 15:38But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
• Jonah 1:14Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”
• Rev 4:11“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
• Eph 1:5having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
• Eph 1:9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
• Ps 110:3Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

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