12Verse 1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.Verse 2You know that when you were pagans, how you were led astray, being carried away to these speechless idols.Verse 3Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.Verse 4Now there are varieties of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit.Verse 5And there are varieties of ministries, but the same Lord.Verse 6And there are varieties of activities, but the same God works all in all.Verse 7But to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the profit of all.Verse 8For to one is given a word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,Verse 9and to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit,Verse 10to another the working of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits, and to another different kinds of tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues.Verse 11But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.
Unity and Diversity in One Body
Verse 12For just as the body is one and has many parts, but all the parts of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.Verse 13For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all given to drink into one Spirit.Verse 14For in fact the body is not one part but many.Verse 15If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?Verse 16And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?Verse 17If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?Verse 18But now God has set the parts, each one of them, in the body just as He desired.Verse 19And if they were all one part, where would be the body?Verse 20But now indeed there are many parts, but one body.Verse 21And 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.”Verse 22But to a greater degree the parts of the body which seem weaker are necessary.Verse 23And the parts of the body which we consider to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater propriety.Verse 24But our presentable parts have no need. But God has united the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacks it,Verse 25lest there be divisions in the body, but the parts care the same for one another.Verse 26And if one part suffers, all the parts suffer together; or if one part is honored, all the parts rejoice together.Verse 27Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.Verse 28And those whom God has appointed in the church are: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.Verse 29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?Verse 30Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?Verse 31But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.