There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people.
Parallel translations
- WEB There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.
- KJV And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
- NKJV And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
- NASB There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons.
- NLT God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us.
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Quick answer
There are various activities, but the same God works them all in everyone. God is the ultimate source and power behind every gift.
Overview
Paul completes the Trinitarian pattern: Spirit, Lord, and God, all at work in the diversity of gifts and operations. The same God energizes all the gifts in all believers. This emphasizes that every spiritual ability is a work of God's grace and power, leaving no room for boasting and uniting the church under one God who works through them all.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- 1 Cor 3:7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
- 1 Cor 12:11All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines.
- John 5:17But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”
- Col 3:11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
- Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
- Heb 13:21equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Eph 4:6one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
- Col 1:29To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.
- Eph 1:19–23and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,
- 1 Cor 15:28And when all things have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will be made subject to Him who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.
- Job 33:29Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,
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