| 12 | 1 Corinthians | ||
| 1 | Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be uninformed. | Spitritual Gifts 1Cor.12.1-11 | |
| 2 | You know that when you were heathen, you were led astray to dumb idols, however you may have been moved. | ||
| 3 | Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus be cursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord"except by the Holy Spirit. | ||
| 4 | Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; | ||
| 5 | and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; | ||
| 6 | and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in everyone. | ||
| 7 | To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. | ||
| 8 | To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, | ||
| 9 | to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, | ||
| 10 | to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. | ||
| 11 | All these are inspired by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. | ||
| 12 | For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. | One Body with Many Members 1Cor.12.12-31 | |
| 13 | For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - Jews or Greeks, slaves or free - and all were made to drink of one Spirit. | ||
| 14 | For the body does not consist of one member but of many. | ||
| 15 | If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. | ||
| 16 | And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. | ||
| 17 | If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? | ||
| 18 | But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose. | ||
| 19 | If all were a single organ, where would the body be? | ||
| 20 | As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. | ||
| 21 | The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." | ||
| 22 | On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable, | ||
| 23 | and those parts of the body which we think less honourable we invest with the greater honour, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, | ||
| 24 | which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honour to the inferior part, | ||
| 25 | that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. | ||
| 26 | If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honoured, all rejoice together. | ||
| 27 | Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. | ||
| 28 | And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues. | ||
| 29 | Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? | ||
| 30 | Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? | Love 1Cor.12.30-13.13 | |
| 31 | But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. | ||
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