1 Corinthians 12:28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

God

Helps

Numbers 11:17

Governments

Romans 12:8

1 Timothy 5:17

Hebrews 13:17

Diversities

1 Corinthians 12:10

Acts 2:8

General references

Romans 12:5

1 Corinthians 12:14

1 Thessalonians 5:20

Bible References

God

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each man toward that which is beneficial.

Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

Now there were some men from the congregation that was in Antioch, prophets and teachers, including Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen reared with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit placed you guardians, to tend the church of the Lord and God, which he purchased by his own blood.

And having different gifts according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, according to the proportion of faith;

Which was built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner,

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets.

And indeed he gave the apostles, and the prophets, and the evangelists, and the shepherds and teachers

Have confidence in those who lead you, and yield yourselves, for they watch for your souls as men who will render account, so that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this is unprofitable for you.

I, a fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a partaker of the glory going be revealed, exhort the elders among you:

Helps

And I will come down and talk with thee there. And I will take from the Spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou not bear it thyself alone.

Governments

or he who exhorts, in the exhortation; he who gives, in simplicity; he who leads, in diligence; he who does mercy, in cheerfulness.

Let the elders who rule well be regarded worthy of double compensation, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Diversities

and to another, workings of miracles, and to another, prophecy, and to another, discerning of spirits, and to a different man, kinds of tongues, and to another, the interpretation of tongues.

And how do we each hear our own language in which we were born?

General references

so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and each one body-parts of each other.

For the body also is not one part, but many.

Do not disdain prophecies,