1 Corinthians 12:5

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
There are different ways to serve, but we serve the same Lord.

Revised Standard Version
and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And ther are differences of administracions and yet but one lorde.

Hebrew Names Version
There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.

International Standard Version
and there are varieties of ministries, but the Lord is the same;Romans 12:6-8; Ephesians 4:11;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.

New Century Version
There are different ways to serve but the same Lord to serve.

Update Bible Version
And there are diversities of servings, and the same Lord.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

English Standard Version
and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;

World English Bible
There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And there are diversities of administrations, but the same Lord:

Weymouth's New Testament
various forms of official service, and yet one and the same Lord;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and dyuerse seruyces ther ben, but it is al oon Lord; and dyuerse worchingis ther ben,

English Revised Version
And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord.

Berean Standard Bible
There are different ministries, but the same Lord.

Contemporary English Version
There are different ways to serve the same Lord,

Amplified Bible
And there are [distinctive] varieties of ministries and service, but it is the same Lord [who is served].

American Standard Version
And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord.

Bible in Basic English
And there are different sorts of servants, but the same Lord.

Complete Jewish Bible
Also there are different ways of serving, but it is the same Lord being served.

Darby Translation
and there are distinctions of services, and the same Lord;

Etheridge Translation
and there are distributions of ministries, but one is the Lord;

Murdock Translation
And there are diversities of ministrations; but the Lord is one.

King James Version (1611)
And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

New Living Translation
There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord.

New Life Bible
There are different kinds of work to be done for Him. But the work is for the same Lord.

New Revised Standard
and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And there are diuersities of administrations, but the same Lord,

George Lamsa Translation
And there are diversities of ministries, but there is only one LORD.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, distributions of ministries, there are, and the same Lord,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there are diversities of ministries. but the same Lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there are differences of administrations, but the Lorde [is] one.

Good News Translation
There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served.

Christian Standard Bible®
There are different ministries, but the same Lord.

King James Version
And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

Lexham English Bible
and there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord,

Literal Translation
and there are differences of ministries, yet the same Lord.

Young's Literal Translation
and there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and there are dyuerse offices, yet but one LORDE:

Mace New Testament (1729)
and there are different offices, but the same Lord.

New English Translation
And there are different ministries, but the same Lord.

New King James Version
There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.

Simplified Cowboy Version
There are different kinds of jobs, but they all serve the same Lord.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.

Legacy Standard Bible
And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.

Contextual Overview

¹What I want to talk about now is the various ways God's Spirit gets worked into our lives. This is complex and often misunderstood, but I want you to be informed and knowledgeable. Remember how you were when you didn't know God, led from one phony god to another, never knowing what you were doing, just doing it because everybody else did it? It's different in this life. God wants us to use our intelligence, to seek to understand as well as we can. For instance, by using your heads, you know perfectly well that the Spirit of God would never prompt anyone to say "Jesus be damned!" Nor would anyone be inclined to say "Jesus is Master!" without the insight of the Holy Spirit. ⁴God's various gifts are handed out everywhere; but they all originate in God's Spirit. God's various ministries are carried out everywhere; but they all originate in God's Spirit. God's various expressions of power are in action everywhere; but God himself is behind it all. Each person is given something to do that shows who God is: Everyone gets in on it, everyone benefits. All kinds of things are handed out by the Spirit, and to all kinds of people! The variety is wonderful: wise counsel clear understanding simple trust healing the sick miraculous acts proclamation distinguishing between spirits tongues interpretation of tongues. All these gifts have a common origin, but are handed out one by one by the one Spirit of God. He decides who gets what, and when.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

administrations: or, ministries, 1 Corinthians 12:28, 1 Corinthians 12:29, Romans 12:6-8, Ephesians 4:11, Ephesians 4:12

but: 1 Corinthians 8:6, Matthew 23:10, Acts 10:36, Romans 14:8, Romans 14:9, Philippians 2:11

Reciprocal: Numbers 4:28 - General Ephesians 4:5 - One Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and Sarai his daughter-in-law (his son Abram's wife) and set out with them from Ur of the Chaldees for the land of Canaan. But when they got as far as Haran, they settled down there.

Genesis 12:8
He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent between Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there and prayed to God .

Genesis 12:9
Abram kept moving, steadily making his way south, to the Negev.

Genesis 14:21
The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me back the people but keep all the plunder for yourself."

Acts 7:4
"So he left the country of the Chaldees and moved to Haran. After the death of his father, he immigrated to this country where you now live, but God gave him nothing, not so much as a foothold. He did promise to give the country to him and his son later on, even though Abraham had no son at the time. God let him know that his offspring would move to an alien country where they would be enslaved and brutalized for four hundred years. ‘But,' God said, ‘I will step in and take care of those slaveholders and bring my people out so they can worship me in this place.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there are differences of administrations,.... Or ministries; offices in the church, ministered in by different persons, as apostles, prophets, pastors, or teachers and deacons; who were employed in planting and forming of churches, ordaining elders, preaching the word, administering ordinances, and taking care of the poor; for which different gifts were bestowed on them, they not all having the same office.

But the same Lord; meaning either Jesus Christ, whom the believer, by the Holy Ghost, says is Lord; who, as the ascended King of saints, and Lord and head of the church, appoints different offices and officers in it; and having received, gives gifts unto them, qualifying them for the same; all which comes through the same hand, and not another's; or rather the Lord, the Spirit, who calls men to these several ministrations, separates and fits them for them, and constitutes and installs them into them, and assists them in the discharge of them; since he only, and all along, is spoken of in the context as the efficient of these several things.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of administrations - Margin, “Ministries.” The word properly denotes “ministries;” so that there are different ranks and grades in the ministries which Christ has appointed, to wit, those specified in 1Co 12:9-10, 1 Corinthians 12:28.

But the same Lord - This refers evidently to the Lord Jesus, by whom these various orders of ministers were appointed, and under whose control they are; see the note at Acts 1:24; compare Ephesians 4:5. The term “Lord,” when it stands by itself in the New Testament, usually refers to the Lord Jesus, the name by which he was commonly known by the disciples; see John 20:25. The fact also that this stands between the mention of the work of the Spirit 1 Corinthians 12:4 and the work of God 1 Corinthians 12:6, and the fact that to the Lord Jesus appertained the appointment of these various grades of officers in the church (compare Matthew 10:1 ff, and Luke 10:1 ff), is further proof that this refers to him. The design of the verse is, to show that all these offices had their appointment from him; and that since all were his appointment, and all were necessary, no one should be proud of an elevated station; no one should be depressed, or feel himself degraded, because he had been designated to a more humble office.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 12:5. Differences of administrations — διακονιων. Various offices in the Church, such as apostle, prophet, and teacher; under which were probably included bishop or presbyter, pastor, deacon, c. the qualifications for such offices, as well as the appointments themselves, coming immediately from the one Lord Jesus Christ.