Romans 12:6

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Summary

Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

Then

Differing according

Romans 12:3

Whether

According to the proportion

General references

1 Corinthians 12:7

Bible References

Then

For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to you for the establishing of you.

that in everything you are enriched by Him, in all speech and in all knowledge;

And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that no one of you may be puffed up against one another.

But there are differences of gifts, but the same Spirit.

And though I have prophecies, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to move mountains, and do not have charity, I am nothing.

each one as he received a gift, ministering it to yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Differing according

For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Whether

Therefore, behold, I send prophets and wise men and scribes to you. And you will kill and crucify some of them. And some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city;

Therefore the wisdom of God also said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute,

"And it shall be in the last days, says God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

And in these days prophets from Jerusalem came to Antioch.

And in Antioch some among the existing church were prophets and teachers. (such as Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.

And Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, exhorted the brothers with many words and confirmed them.

And there were four virgin daughters to this one, who prophesied.

and to another workings of powers, to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; and to another kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues.

And though I have prophecies, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to move mountains, and do not have charity, I am nothing.

Follow after charity and desire spiritual things, but rather that you may prophesy.

which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

And truly He gave some to be apostles, and some to be prophets, and some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,

Do not despise prophesying.

According to the proportion

And a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

For if the eagerness is present, it is acceptable according to what one has, and not according to what one does not have.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be of this mind. And if in anything you are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.

General references

But to each one is given the showing forth of the Spirit to our profit.