Romans 12:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 [a]For I [b]say through the grace that is given unto me, to everyone that is among you, that no man [c]presume to understand above that which is meet to understand, but that he understand according to [d]sobriety, as God hath dealt to every man the (A)measure of [e]faith.
4 [f]For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not one office,
5 So we being many, are one body in Christ, and every one, one anothers members.
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- Romans 12:3 Thirdly he admonisheth us very earnestly, that every man keep himself within the bounds of his vocation, and that every man be wise according to the measure of grace that God hath given him.
- Romans 12:3 I charge.
- Romans 12:3 That he please not himself too much, as they do, which persuade themselves they know more than indeed they do.
- Romans 12:3 We will be sober if we take not that upon us, which we have not, and if we brag not of that we have.
- Romans 12:3 By faith he meaneth the knowledge of God in Christ, and the gifts which the holy Ghost poureth upon the faithful.
- Romans 12:4 There is a double reason of the precept going afore: the one is because God hath not committed everything to be done of every man: and therefore, he doeth backwardly, and not only unprofitably, but also to the great disprofit of others, wearieth himself and others, which passeth the bounds of his vocation: the other is, for that this diversity and inequality of vocations and gifts, redoundeth to our commodity seeing that the same is therefore instituted and appointed, that we should be bound one to another. Whereupon it followeth that no man ought to be grieved thereat, seeing that the use of every private gift is common.
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