Scripture Post #256: *EVERY MAN*

1st Corinthians 12:7: "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal."

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Context: This Scripture was from Apostle Paul and Sosthenes, unto the Church at Corinth (1st Cor. 1:1-2).

Further context: V. 1: "Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant."

V. 2: "Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led."

V. 3: "Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost."

V. 4: "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit."

V. 5: "And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord."

V. 6: "And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all."

V. 7: "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal."

V. 8: "For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;"

V. 9: "To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;"

V. 10: "To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:"

V. 11: "But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will."

Verse 7 is great because, in verses 4-6, the diversities of the gifts of the SPIRIT are mentioned, but when verse 7 comes—boom(!): "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal." This person may have this gift of the SPIRIT, and that person may have that gift of the SPIRIT, but the SPIRIT is given to every man! In other words: You may not have that believer's gift of the SPIRIT, but you certainly have the SPIRIT! And it's gonna profit you withal!

Originally Published: Sat. 5/26/13