Romans 12:5

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:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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And severally (to de kaq eiv). A difficult late idiom where the preposition kaq (kata) is treated adverbially with no effect on the nominative case eiv like uper egw (II Corinthians 11:23). So eiv kaq eiv (Mark 14:19) and in Modern Greek kaqeiv as a distributive pronoun. But we have kaq ena in I Corinthians 14:31. The use of the neuter article here to with kaq eiv is probably the accusative of general reference, "as to each one."

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