1 Corinthians 12 Footnotes

12:4-7 Speaking in tongues and prophesying are just some gifts among others in the multi-gifted membership of the body of Christ. Gifts are not evidence of spirituality or superiority. In fact, gifts not employed in others-centered, self-forgetting love are useless. Gifts are God’s provision for this present age; love is what matters in the end (12:31–13:13). In fact, the displays of some of the believers were contributing to chaotic, noisy meetings that failed to build up believers and scandalized visiting unbelievers (14:20-36).