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NASB | 1 Corinthians 12:10 and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 12:10 and to another the working of miracles, and to another prophecy [foretelling the future, speaking a new message from God to the people], and to another discernment of spirits [the ability to distinguish sound, godly doctrine from the deceptive doctrine of man-made religions and cults], to another various kinds of [unknown] tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues. |
Subject: Holy Spirt w/ evidence of tongues? |
Bible Note: EdB: There are two principal interpretations involving "perfect" in the passage under discussion, i.e., 1 Cor. 13:8-13. One traditional view is that gifts of prophecy, tongues, and knowledge will cease when believers enter the eternal state. The other view is that these gifts have already ceased, and that this occurred when the Canon of Scripture was completed. Each view follows in a paraphrastic rendering of verses 8-10 under the labels ETERNAL STATE and COMPLETED CANON......... ETERNAL STATE. Love will never cease. In contrast, the prophecies which exist at the present time will be ended when God's people are home in heaven. Where there is the gift of knowledge just now, this will be stopped when we reach the consummation in glory. (When Paul says knowledge...will vanish away, he cannot mean that there will be no knowledge in heaven. He must be referring to the gift of knowledge whereby divine truth was supernaturally imparted.) ........ The other view, COMPLETED CANON. Love will never cease. While there are prophecies (at the time of Paul), the need for such direct revelations would end when the last book of the NT was completed. Tongues were still in use in Paul's day, but they would cease in and of themselves when the sixty-six books of the Bible were finished, because they would no longer be necessary to confirm the preaching of the apostles and prophets (Heb. 2:3,4). Knowledge of divine truth was being given by God to the apostles and prophets, but this would also stop when the complete body of Christian doctrine was once for all delivered. ........ The foregoing has been adapted from material published in The Believer's Bible Commentary, Art Farstad, ed. (Nelson). --Hank |