Lux Domini
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

What does 1 Corinthians 12:30 mean?

Contempt, hatred, envy, and strife, are very unnatural in Christians. It is like the members of the same body being without concern for one another, or quarrelling with each other.

Key themes

LoveEternal lifeThe crossChurch order

Read with

Keep this verse inside 1 Corinthians 12:30-31 and alongside a few nearby related passages.

Glossary

Tongues, Confusion of People

At Babel, the cause of the early separation of mankind and their division into nations. The descendants of Noah built a tower to prevent their dispersion; but God “confounded their language”.