Spirirtual Gifts: EACH BELIEVER HAS A SPIRITUAL GIFT
Each Believer Has A Spiritual Gift
EACH BELIEVER HAS A SPIRITUAL GIFT
7 [TP But to each one of us TP] grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
PRINCIPLE 8 Therefore it says,
SENTENCE “WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH,
HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES,
SENTENCE AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN.”
SENTENCE 9 [TP (Now this expression, “He ascended,” TP] ‹→ what →› does it mean except that ‹☉ ‹+ He also had descended +› into the lower parts of the earth? ☉›
SENTENCE 10 He who descended is [TP Himself TP] ‹+ also He who ascended +› far above all the heavens,
SUB-POINT so that He might fill all things.)
SENTENCE 11 And [TP He TP] gave
BULLET ‹✓ ‹✕ some as apostles, and some ✕› as prophets,
BULLET and some as evangelists,
BULLET and some as pastors and teachers, ✓›
ELABORATION 12 for the equipping of the saints
BULLET for the work of service,
BULLET to the building up of the body of Christ;
SUB-POINT 13 until we all attain
BULLET to the unity of the faith, and of the bknowledge of the Son of God,
BULLET to a mature man,
BULLET to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
SUB-POINT 14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine,
BULLET by the trickery of men,
BULLET by craftiness in deceitful scheming;
SENTENCE 15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him
SUB-POINT who is the head, even ‹ Christ, ›
SENTENCE 16 [CR from whom CR] [TP the whole body, TP] being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.