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NASB | Romans 16:7 Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are outstanding among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 16:7 Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and [once] my fellow prisoners, who are held in high esteem in the estimation of the apostles, and who were [believers] in Christ before me. |
Bible Question: Has the gift of prophecy and tongues and knowledge passed away? What are we to make of I Corinthians 13:8-13, but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. Does this verse mean that Christ came and the partial was done away with, and that somehow after the Holy Spirit which was after Christ that the gift was only in operation in the founding of the church? Does this verse mean that when the church was finished the perfect was come and that the gift was only in operation in the founding of the church? Does this verse mean that when Christ returns the perfect state of man will come and that then all the gifts except faith, hope and love will abide because the other gifts will no longer be necessary fir the church to function, because we will be just like Jesus? We know that the gift of being apostle has passed becaue they finished founding the church. In your answer do not confuse the concept of propecy as it functioned in the OT as a precursor to Christ and to lead Israel with Paul's description of the gift in I Corinthians 14:3,4 as being applicable to the functioning of the church membership. |
Bible Answer: Hello Tamara, In the passage, Paul is comparing the unfailing nature of love with the temporal nature of sign gifts. He uses himself as an example of growing from childhood to maturity (i.e. when we grow up, we no longer do things). In the life of the church, this should be the same. He wants the church in Corinth to grow up. We would expect sign gifts to diminish as the church (whether local or universal) grows to maturity. As an aside, Steve |