Spiritual Gifts

¹Now mconcerning1 spiritual gifts,2 brothers,3 I do not want you to be uninformed. ²You know that nwhen you were pagans oyou were led astray to pmute idols, however you were led. ³Therefore I want you to understand that qno one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is raccursed!” and sno one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.

⁴Now tthere are varieties of gifts, but uthe same Spirit; ⁵and vthere are varieties of service, but uthe same Lord; ⁶and there are varieties of activities, but it is uthe same God who empowers them all in everyone. ⁷wTo each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. ⁸For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of xwisdom, and to another the utterance of yknowledge according to the same Spirit, ⁹to another zfaith by the same Spirit, to another agifts of healing by the one Spirit, ¹⁰to another bthe working of miracles, to another cprophecy, to another dthe ability to distinguish between spirits, to another evarious kinds of tongues, to another fthe interpretation of tongues. ¹¹All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, gwho apportions to each one individually has he wills.

One Body with Many Members

¹²For just as ithe body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, jso it is with Christ. ¹³For kin one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—lJews or Greeks, slaves4 or free—and mall were made to drink of one Spirit.

¹⁴For the body does not consist of one member but of many. ¹⁵If 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. ¹⁶And 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. ¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? ¹⁸But as it is, nGod arranged the members in the body, each one of them, oas he chose. ¹⁹If all were a single member, where would the body be? ²⁰As it is, there are many parts,5 yet one body.

²¹The 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.” ²²On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, ²³and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, ²⁴which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, ²⁵that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. ²⁶If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, pall rejoice together.

²⁷Now qyou are the body of Christ and individually rmembers of it. ²⁸And sGod has appointed in the church first tapostles, second uprophets, third teachers, then vmiracles, then wgifts of healing, xhelping, yadministrating, and vvarious kinds of tongues. ²⁹Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? ³⁰Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? ³¹But zearnestly desire the higher gifts.

And I will show you a still more excellent way.