1 Corinthians 12:6

Good News Translation

There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to all for their particular service.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
And there are different ways that God works in people, but it is the same God who works in all of us to do everything.

Revised Standard Version
and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And ther are divers maners of operacions and yet but one God which worketh all thinges that are wrought in all creatures.

Hebrew Names Version
There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

International Standard Version
and there are varieties of results, but God is the same, and it is he who produces all the results in everyone.Ephesians 1:23;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons.

New Century Version
And there are different ways that God works through people but the same God. God works in all of us in everything we do.

Update Bible Version
And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God who worketh all in all.

English Standard Version
and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.

World English Bible
There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God who worketh all in all.

Weymouth's New Testament
diversities in work, and yet one and the same God--He who in each person brings about the whole result.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but `al is oon God, that worchith alle thingis in alle thingis.

English Revised Version
And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, who worketh all things in all.

Berean Standard Bible
There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all men.

Contemporary English Version
and we can each do different things. Yet the same God works in all of us and helps us in everything we do.

Amplified Bible
And there are [distinctive] ways of working [to accomplish things], but it is the same God who produces all things in all believers [inspiring, energizing, and empowering them].

American Standard Version
And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, who worketh all things in all.

Bible in Basic English
And there are different operations, but the same God, who is working all things in all.

Complete Jewish Bible
And there are different modes of working, but it is the same God working them all in everyone.

Darby Translation
and there are distinctions of operations, but the same God who operates all things in all.

Etheridge Translation
and distributions of powers, but one is Aloha, who worketh all in every man.

Murdock Translation
And there are diversities of energies; but God, who worketh all in all men, is one.

King James Version (1611)
And there are diuersities of operations, but it is the same God, which worketh all in all.

New Living Translation
God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us.

New Life Bible
There are different ways of doing His work. But it is the same God who uses all these ways in all people.

New Revised Standard
and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And there are diuersities of operations, but God is the same which worketh all in all.

George Lamsa Translation
And there are diversities of powers, but it is the one God who works all things in all men.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, distributions of energies, there are, and the same God - who energiseth all things in all.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who worketh all in all.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there are diuers maners of operations, but God is one, which worketh all in all.

Christian Standard Bible®
And there are different activities, but the same God produces each gift in each person.

King James Version
And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

Lexham English Bible
and there are varieties of activities, but the same God, who works all things in all people.

Literal Translation
And there are differences of workings, but the same God is working all things in all.

Young's Literal Translation
and there are diversities of workings, and it is the same God -- who is working the all in all.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and there are dyuerse operacions yet is there but one God, which worketh all in all.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and there are different operations, but it is the same God who performs them all in every one.

New English Translation
And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

New King James Version
And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.

Simplified Cowboy Version
God works in different people in different ways, but it is the same God doing the work in all of us.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons.

Legacy Standard Bible
And there are varieties of workings, but the same God who works everything in everyone.

Contextual Overview

¹ Now, concerning what you wrote about the gifts from the Holy Spirit. I want you to know the truth about them, my friends. ² You know that while you were still heathen, you were led astray in many ways to the worship of lifeless idols. ³ I want you to know that no one who is led by God's Spirit can say "A curse on Jesus!" and no one can confess "Jesus is Lord," without being guided by the Holy Spirit. ⁴ There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them. ⁵ There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served. ⁶ There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to all for their particular service. ⁷ The Spirit's presence is shown in some way in each person for the good of all. ⁸ The Spirit gives one person a message full of wisdom, while to another person the same Spirit gives a message full of knowledge. ⁹ One and the same Spirit gives faith to one person, while to another person he gives the power to heal. ¹⁰ The Spirit gives one person the power to work miracles; to another, the gift of speaking God's message; and to yet another, the ability to tell the difference between gifts that come from the Spirit and those that do not. To one person he gives the ability to speak in strange tongues, and to another he gives the ability to explain what is said.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

worketh: 1 Corinthians 12:11, 1 Corinthians 3:7, Job 33:29, John 5:17, Ephesians 1:19-22, Colossians 1:29, Philippians 2:13, Hebrews 13:21

all: 1 Corinthians 15:28, Ephesians 1:23, Colossians 3:11

Reciprocal: Numbers 4:28 - General 1 Samuel 3:4 - called Samuel 2 Corinthians 5:18 - all Ephesians 4:6 - God

Cross-References

Genesis 10:15
Canaan's sons—Sidon, the oldest, and Heth—were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.

Genesis 12:18
Then the king sent for Abram and asked him, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

Genesis 12:19
Why did you say that she was your sister, and let me take her as my wife? Here is your wife; take her and get out!"

Genesis 13:7
So quarrels broke out between the men who took care of Abram's animals and those who took care of Lot's animals. (At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were still living in the land.)

Genesis 33:18
On his return from Mesopotamia Jacob arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan and set up his camp in a field near the city.

Genesis 34:2
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who was chief of that region, saw her, he took her and raped her.

Genesis 35:4
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and also the earrings that they were wearing. He buried them beneath the oak tree near Shechem.

Deuteronomy 11:30
(These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the territory of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley. They are toward the west, not far from the sacred trees of Moreh near the town of Gilgal.)

Joshua 20:7
So, on the west side of the Jordan they set aside Kedesh in Galilee, in the hill country of Naphtali; Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim; and Hebron, in the hill country of Judah.

Joshua 24:32
The body of Joseph, which the people of Israel had brought from Egypt, was buried at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of silver. This land was inherited by Joseph's descendants.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there are diversities of operations, There are some that are ordinary, as the good work of grace, and the several parts of it, the work of faith, the labour of love, and patience of hope, which the Spirit of God begins, carries on, and finishes in all the elect of God, and members of Christ; and there are others which are extraordinary, and are here meant, and hereafter specified.

But it is the same God which worketh all in all. Interpreters in general understand by God here, God the Father; as by the Lord in the preceding verse, the Lord Jesus Christ, as distinct from the Spirit in 1 Corinthians 12:4 and apprehend that this furnishes out a considerable proof of a trinity of persons in the Godhead, which I will not deny; but I rather think that the Holy Ghost is designed in each verse, by Spirit, Lord, and God; since the various gifts, administrations, and operations, are particularly and peculiarly ascribed to him in the following verses; and the distribution of them is said to be the effect of his sovereign will; and so we have a most illustrious testimony of his proper deity and personality; who is the only true "Jehovah" with the Father and Son, to which the word "Lord" in the New Testament generally answers, and who is the omnipotent God, "which worketh all in all"; all the works of nature throughout the universe, and all the, works of grace in the hearts of all his people, and all the extraordinary operations effected by any of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of operations - Of works; to wit, of miracles, such as God produces in the church, in the establishment and defense of his religion. There are different operations on the mind and heart; and different powers given to man, or different qualifications in building up and defending his cause. Or it may be, possibly, that Paul here refers to the works of God mainly for mere “illustration,” and by the word “operations” means the works which God has performed in creation and providence. His works are various. They are not all alike, though they come from the same hand. The sun, the moon, the stars, the earth are different; the trees of the forest, the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, the inhabitants of the deep are different; the flowers, and shrubs, and herbs are different from each other; yet. however much they may vary, they are formed by the same hand. are the productions of the same God, are to be regarded as proofs of the same wisdom and power. The same thing should be expected in his church; and we should anticipate that the endowments of its members would be various.

But it is the same God - The same Father; all these operations are produced by the same God. They should not, therefore, be undervalued or despised; nor should anyone be unduly elated, or pride himself on what has been conferred by God alone.

All in all - All these operations are to be traced to him. His agency is everywhere. It is as really seen in the insect’s wing as in the limbs of the mammoth; as really in the humblest violet as in the loftiest oak of the forest. All, therefore, should regard themselves as under his direction, and should submit to his arrangements. If people regard their endowments as the gift of God, they will be thankful for them, and they will not be disposed to despise or undervalue others who have been placed in a more humble condition and rank in the church.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 12:6. Diversities of operations — ενεργηματων. Miraculous influences exerted on others; such as the expulsion of demons, inflicting extraordinary punishments, as in the case of Ananias and Sapphira, Elymas the sorcerer, c., the healing of different diseases, raising the dead, &c.: all these proceeded from God the Father, as the fountain of all goodness and power, and the immediate dispenser of every good and perfect gift.

In the three preceding verses we find more than an indirect reference to the doctrine of the sacred Trinity.

GIFTS are attributed to the Holy Spirit, 1 Corinthians 12:4.

ADMINISTRATIONS to the Lord Jesus, 1 Corinthians 12:5.

OPERATIONS to God the Father, 1 Corinthians 12:6.

He who may think this fanciful must account for the very evident distinctions here in some more satisfactory way.