1 Corinthians 12:9

To another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit.

The list of miraculous endowments continues here. "Faith" is the endowment of all Christians, but more than faith ordinary is meant here.

It has a special meaning here. It must mean a faith that has special, visible results, a faith that enables one to do miracles (Matthew 17:20; 1 Corinthians 13:2).[14]

Lipscomb identified faith here as "that which enabled one to remove mountains, as Jesus said, enabling one to exert power."[15]

Gifts of healings ... As Hodge said, "This evidently refers to the miraculous healing of diseases."[16] There were many examples of this recorded in Acts, as for example when Paul healed Publius and many others on Malta (Acts 28:8,9). In this connection, it is clear that not even Paul used such a gift for the indiscriminate healing of all who were sick. There was a divine purpose in miracles, that being confirmation of the word of God. Significantly, Paul did not heal Timothy (1 Timothy 5:23), nor Trophimus (2 Timothy 4:20). As Johnson said of the gifts of healing in view here:

They are not to be confused with the work of so-called divine healers today. The gift of healing provided restoration of life, which is beyond the power of `divine healers' (see Acts 9:40; 20:9).[17]

[14] F. W. Grosheide, The New International Commentary (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1953), p. 286.

[15] David Lipscomb, Commentary on 1Corinthians (Nashville: Gospel Advocate Company, 1935), p. 182.

[16] Charles Hodge, An Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1974), p. 247.

[17] S. Lewis Johnson, Jr., Wycliffe Bible Commentary (Chicago: Moody Press, 1971), p. 628.