There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons.
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.
- BSB There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people.
- NKJV And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
- 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 then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
- 1 Cor 12:11But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
- John 5:17But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”
- Col 3:11where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
- Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
- Heb 13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Eph 4:6one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.
- Col 1:29for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
- Eph 1:19–23and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
- 1 Cor 15:28When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
- Job 33:29“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,
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