1 Corinthians 12:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Heb 13:24 : 24 Give words of love from me to those who are rulers over you, and to all the saints. Those who are in Italy send you their love.
  • Heb 13:17 : 17 Give ear to those who are rulers over you, and do as they say: for they keep watch over your souls, ready to give an account of them; let them be able to do this with joy and not with grief, because that would be of no profit to you.
  • Eph 4:11-13 : 11 And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching; 12 For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:
  • Eph 2:20 : 20 Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,
  • Eph 3:5 : 5 Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
  • Rom 12:6-8 : 6 And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith; 7 Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it; 8 He who has the power of comforting, let him do so; he who gives, let him give freely; he who has the power of ruling, let him do it with a serious mind; he who has mercy on others, let it be with joy.
  • 1 Tim 5:17 : 17 Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.
  • 1 Pet 5:1-4 : 1 I who am myself one of the rulers of the church, and a witness of the death of Christ, having my part in the coming glory, send this serious request to the chief men among you: 2 Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind; 3 Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock. 4 And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.
  • 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Give no cause of trouble to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God.
  • 1 Cor 12:7-9 : 7 But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good. 8 For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit: 9 To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit; 10 And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues: 11 But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is.
  • 1 Cor 12:18 : 18 But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.
  • Num 11:17 : 17 And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself.
  • Luke 6:14 : 14 Simon, to whom he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew, his brother, and James and John and Philip and Bartholomew
  • Acts 2:8-9 : 8 And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth? 9 Men of Parthia, Media, and Elam, and those living in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, 10 In Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and those who have come from Rome, Jews by birth and others who have become Jews, 11 Men of Crete and Arabia, to all of us they are talking in our different languages, of the great works of God.
  • Acts 13:1-3 : 1 Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul. 2 And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me. 3 Then, after prayer and going without food they put their hands on them, and sent them away.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 Cor 12:29-31
    3 verses
    84%

    29 Are all Apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? have all the power of working wonders?

    30 Are all able to take away disease? have all the power of tongues? are all able to give their sense?

    31 But let your desires be turned to the more important things given by the Spirit. And now I am pointing out to you an even better way.

  • Eph 4:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11 And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;

    12 For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

  • 1 Cor 12:27
    76%

    27 Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.

  • 1 Cor 12:4-12
    9 verses
    76%

    4 Now there are different qualities given to men, but the same Spirit.

    5 And there are different sorts of servants, but the same Lord.

    6 And there are different operations, but the same God, who is working all things in all.

    7 But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good.

    8 For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit:

    9 To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit;

    10 And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:

    11 But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is.

    12 For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

  • Rom 12:4-8
    5 verses
    72%

    4 For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,

    5 So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

    6 And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith;

    7 Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it;

    8 He who has the power of comforting, let him do so; he who gives, let him give freely; he who has the power of ruling, let him do it with a serious mind; he who has mercy on others, let it be with joy.

  • 1 Cor 12:18-20
    3 verses
    71%

    18 But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.

    19 And if they were all one part, where would the body be?

    20 But now they are all different parts, but one body.

  • 1 Cor 14:12
    69%

    12 So if you are desiring the things which the Spirit gives, let your minds be turned first to the things which are for the good of the church.

  • Heb 2:4
    68%

    4 And God was a witness with them, by signs and wonders, and by more than natural powers, and by his distribution of the Holy Spirit at his pleasure.

  • 1 Cor 14:26-29
    4 verses
    68%

    26 What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.

    27 If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:

    28 But if there is no one to give the sense, let him keep quiet in the church; and let his words be to himself and to God.

    29 And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.

  • 1 Cor 14:1-5
    5 verses
    67%

    1 Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.

    2 For he who makes use of tongues is not talking to men but to God; because no one has the sense of what he is saying; but in the Spirit he is talking of secret things.

    3 But the word of the prophet gives men knowledge and comfort and strength.

    4 He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church.

    5 Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
    67%

    1 But about the things of the spirit, my brothers, it is not right for you to be without teaching.

  • 1 Pet 4:10-11
    2 verses
    65%

    10 Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God;

    11 If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.

  • 1 Cor 12:14
    65%

    14 For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.

  • 1 Cor 3:5
    65%

    5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.

  • 1 Cor 14:39
    64%

    39 So then, my brothers, let it be your chief desire to be prophets; but let no one be stopped from using tongues.

  • 1 Cor 14:22-23
    2 verses
    64%

    22 For this reason tongues are for a sign, not to those who have faith, but to those who have not: but the prophet's word is for those who have faith, and not for the rest who have not.

    23 If, then, the church has come together, and all are using tongues, and there come in men without knowledge or faith, will they not say that you are unbalanced?

  • 1 Cor 12:24
    64%

    24 But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it;

  • 1 Cor 14:31-32
    2 verses
    64%

    31 For you may all be prophets in turn so that all may get knowledge and comfort;

    32 And the spirits of the prophets are controlled by the prophets;

  • Eph 4:7-8
    2 verses
    64%

    7 But to every one of us has grace been given in the measure of the giving of Christ.

    8 For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men.

  • 1 Cor 7:7
    64%

    7 It is my desire that all men might be even as I am. But every man has the power of his special way of life given him by God, one in this way and one in that.

  • Eph 1:22
    64%

    22 And he has put all things under his feet, and has made him to be head over all things to the church,

  • 1 Tim 4:14
    63%

    14 Make use of that grace in you, which was given to you by the word of the prophets, when the rulers of the church put their hands on you.