Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
Parallel translations
- KJV Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
- BSB We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith;
- NKJV Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;
- NASB However, since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to use them properly: if prophecy, in proportion to one’s faith;
- NLT In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you.
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We have differing gifts according to grace; prophecy is to be exercised in proportion to one's faith.
Overview
Paul begins listing spiritual gifts, all 'according to the grace given to us,' underscoring that they are unearned endowments for serving the body. The first, prophecy, is to be used 'according to the proportion of faith,' that is, in keeping with what one has been given and in agreement with the faith. The emphasis is on faithful, humble use of gifts for the common good rather than self-display.
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- 1 Pet 4:10–11As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
- 1 Cor 7:7Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
- 1 Cor 12:28–31God 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.
- 1 Cor 12:4–11Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
- 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 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
- 1 Cor 14:3–5But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.
- Rom 1:11For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;
- 1 Cor 14:1Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
- 1 Cor 1:5–7that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;
- Eph 4:11He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
- 2 Cor 8:12For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
- 1 Cor 4:6–7Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
- 1 Th 5:20Don’t despise prophesies.
- 1 Cor 14:31–32For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.
- Acts 15:32Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words, and strengthened them.
- 1 Cor 14:29Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.
- Luke 11:49Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,
- Matt 23:34Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
- Acts 2:17‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.
- Phil 3:15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
- Acts 21:9Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.
- 1 Cor 14:24But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
- Eph 3:5which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
- Acts 11:27–28Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
- Acts 18:24–28Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
- Acts 13:1Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
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