1st Peter Chapter 4 verse 10 Holy Bible
according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;
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Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God;
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each according as he has received a gift, ministering it to one another, as good stewards of [the] various grace of God.
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As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
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According as each has received a gift, be ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the grace of God in its various forms.
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each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;
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1st Peter 4 : 10 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - As every man hath received the gift; rather, according as each received a gift. The aorist ἔλαβεν, "received," seems to point to a definite time, as baptism, or the laying on of hands (comp. Acts 8:17; Acts 19:6; 1 Timothy 4:14). For the gift (χάρισμα), comp. Romans 12:6; 1 Corinthians 12:4, "There are diversities of gifts." Even so minister the same one to another; literally, ministering it towards one another. The gifts of grace, whatever they may be, are talents entrusted to individual Christians for the good of the whole Church; those who have them must use them to minister to the wants of others (comp. 1 Peter 1:12, where the same word, διακονεῖν, to minister, is used of the gift of prophecy). As good stewards of the manifold grace of God. We seem to see here a reference to the parable of the talents (comp. also 1 Corinthians 4:1; Titus 1:7). Christians must be "good stewards (καλοὶ οἰκονόμοι)." There should be not only exactness, but also grace and beauty in their stewardship - the beauty which belongs to holy love, and flows from the imitation of him who is "the good Shepherd (ὁ ποιμὴν ὁ καλός).";;The gifts (χαρίσματα) are the manifestations of the grace (χάρις) of God; that grace from which all gifts issue is called manifold (ποικίλη), because of the diversities of its gifts, the variety of its manifestations.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) As every man hath received the gift.--There is no definite article in the-Greek, which might be rendered, According as every man was gifted. They are reminded, as in 1Corinthians 4:7, that the gift was received, and for the same purpose. At what period these gifts were received it is hard to say, as in some instances the gift was of a spiritual nature, in others of a temporal nature. Each, however, has a gift of some kind for the benefit of the community.Even so minister.--In the original, ministering. It is still an exhibition of the "intense charity" of 1Peter 4:8. The verb is the same as in 1Peter 1:12, where see Note.As good stewards.--No one receives these gifts, spiritual or temporal, as his own; he is but a "steward," and when he offers them to the Church it is not as a benefactor, but as a servant, "ministering."Of the manifold grace of God.--"Grace" is here used, not in its theological sense, but, as in 1Peter 3:7, in the sense of bountiful giving; and the beautiful word rendered "manifold" brings out the subtle and picturesque variety with which God arranges and distributes His bounty. But the emphatic word of the sentence is "of God." . . .
