“Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;”
We have different gifts, according to the grace given to us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith — the charismata (grace-gifts) are diversified according to charis (grace) given. Prophēteueō (prophesy) is enumerated first—perhaps because it addresses the community directly. The gift must be exercised kata tēn analogian tēs pisteōs (according to the proportion of faith), suggesting that gifting and faith are proportional, not competitive.
Church Fathers on Romans 12:6
“Having then gifts differing according to the grace of God that is given unto us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith.” Since then he had sufficiently comforted them, he wishes also to make them vie with each other, and labor more in earnest, by showing that it is themselves that give the grounds for their receiving more or less. For he says indeed that it is given by God (as when he says, “according as God has dealt to every man the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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