1Cor 12:8-10, 2Cor 8:7, 11:6 | PNT | STEP | To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom . The ability to reveal divine truth, such as possessed by the apostles. To another the world of knowledge . The aptitude to teach unerringly what has been revealed to the apostles and prophets.

1 Corinthians 12:8-10

To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom. The ability to reveal divine truth, such as possessed by the apostles.

To another the world of knowledge. The aptitude to teach unerringly what has been revealed to the apostles and prophets. To another faith by the same Spirit. Not that faith which "comes by hearing" (Ro 10:17), but that faith which carried miraculous power. See 1Co 13:2 Mt 17:20. To another prophecy. The prophet was one who, under divine impulse, spoke words given by the Holy Spirit.

To another discerning of spirits. The power of reading hearts and determining whether men spoke by the divine spirit, or some other impulse.

To another [divers] kinds of languages. He who spoke with tongues, spoke languages that he had never learned (Ac 2:6-8). Sometimes their utterances were not understood by the audience. Hence another gift was the interpretation of languages, the ability to explain the meaning of those who spoke with tongues.

2 Corinthians 8:7

As ye abound in every [thing]. Instead of Macedonia setting the example to Corinth, the latter ought to have led. The church was rich in gifts. See 1Co 1:5.

2 Corinthians 11:6

Though [I am] rude in speech, yet not in knowledge. He had not the rhetoric of a Corinthian orator, but he was not wanting in divine knowledge. See 1Co 1:17 2:4. His revealed knowledge had been manifest among them.