Romans 12:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And we have different gifts according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:7 : 7 I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.
  • 1 Pet 4:10-11 : 10 Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God. 11 Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
  • Rom 12:3 : 3 Conduct in Humility For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.
  • 1 Cor 12:28-31 : 28 And God has placed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, gifts of healing, helps, gifts of leadership, different kinds of tongues. 29 Not all are apostles, are they? Not all are prophets, are they? Not all are teachers, are they? Not all perform miracles, do they? 30 Not all have gifts of healing, do they? Not all speak in tongues, do they? Not all interpret, do they? 31 But you should be eager for the greater gifts.And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
  • 1 Cor 14:1 : 1 Prophecy and Tongues Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
  • 1 Cor 14:3-5 : 3 But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouragement, and consolation. 4 The one who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. 5 I wish you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be strengthened.
  • Acts 13:1 : 1 The Church at Antioch Commissions Barnabas and Saul Now there were these prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen(a close friend of Herod the tetrarch from childhood) and Saul.
  • 1 Cor 1:5-7 : 5 For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge– 6 just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed among you– 7 so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Cor 4:6-7 : 6 I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other. 7 For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?
  • 1 Cor 12:4-9 : 4 Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are different ministries, but the same Lord. 6 And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. 7 To each person the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the benefit of all. 8 For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another performance of miracles, to another prophecy, and to another discernment of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.
  • Rom 1:11 : 11 For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,
  • Eph 4:11 : 11 And he himself gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
  • Phil 3:15 : 15 Therefore let those of us who are“perfect” embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.
  • 1 Thess 5:20 : 20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt.
  • Acts 15:32 : 32 Both Judas and Silas, who were prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with a long speech.
  • Acts 18:24-28 : 24 Apollos Begins His Ministry Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, arrived in Ephesus. He was an eloquent speaker, well-versed in the scriptures. 25 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and with great enthusiasm he spoke and taught accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John. 26 He began to speak out fearlessly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the way of God to him more accurately. 27 When Apollos wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he assisted greatly those who had believed by grace, 28 for he refuted the Jews vigorously in public debate, demonstrating from the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.
  • Acts 21:9 : 9 (He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.)
  • Matt 23:34 : 34 “For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,
  • Luke 11:49 : 49 For this reason also the wisdom of God said,‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’
  • Acts 2:17 : 17 ‘And in the last days it will be,’ God says,‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
  • Acts 11:27-28 : 27 Famine Relief for Judea At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 One of them, named Agabus, got up and predicted by the Spirit that a severe famine was about to come over the whole inhabited world.(This took place during the reign of Claudius.)
  • 1 Cor 14:24 : 24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person enters, he will be convicted by all, he will be called to account by all.
  • 1 Cor 14:29 : 29 Two or three prophets should speak and the others should evaluate what is said.
  • 1 Cor 14:31-32 : 31 For you can all prophesy one after another, so all can learn and be encouraged. 32 Indeed, the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,
  • 2 Cor 8:12 : 12 For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.
  • Eph 3:5 : 5 (which was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit),

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    4Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit.

    5And there are different ministries, but the same Lord.

    6And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

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    8For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

    9to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

    10to another performance of miracles, to another prophecy, and to another discernment of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

    11It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.

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    29Not all are apostles, are they? Not all are prophets, are they? Not all are teachers, are they? Not all perform miracles, do they?

    30Not all have gifts of healing, do they? Not all speak in tongues, do they? Not all interpret, do they?

    31But you should be eager for the greater gifts.And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.

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    1Prophecy and Tongues Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

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    26Church Order What should you do then, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each one has a song, has a lesson, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all these things be done for the strengthening of the church.

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    9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part,

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    15Nor do we boast beyond certain limits in the work done by others, but we hope that as your faith continues to grow, our work may be greatly expanded among you according to our limits,

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    13But we will not boast beyond certain limits, but will confine our boasting according to the limits of the work to which God has appointed us, that reaches even as far as you.

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    7I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

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    5Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

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    14For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

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    31For you can all prophesy one after another, so all can learn and be encouraged.

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    7I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

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    3But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouragement, and consolation.

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    18But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.

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    13But since we have the same spirit of faith as that shown in what has been written,“I believed; therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak.

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