Romans 12:5

Serve God with Spiritual Gifts

3 For I say, ^athrough the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, ^bnot to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt ^cto each one a measure of faith.

4 For ^aas we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,

5 so ^awe, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is ^agiven to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us ^bprophesy in proportion to our faith;

7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; ^ahe who teaches, in teaching;

8 ^ahe who exhorts, in exhortation; ^bhe who gives, with liberality; ^che who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, ^dwith cheerfulness.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Romans 12:5

So we, being many - We who are members of the Church of Christ, which is considered the body of which he is the head, have various offices assigned to us, according to the measure of grace, faith and religious knowledge which we possess; and although each has a different office, and qualifications suitable to that office, yet all belong to the same body; and each has as much need of the help of another as that other has of his; therefore, let there be neither pride on the one hand, nor envy on the other. The same metaphor, in nearly the same words, is used in Synopsis Sohar, page 13. "As man is divided into various members and joints, united among themselves, and raised by gradations above each other, and collectively compose one body; so all created things are members orderly disposed, and altogether constitute one body. In like manner the law, distributed into various articulations, constitutes but one body." See Schoettgen.

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