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Corinthians 12
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts,
brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles,
carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
3 Wherefore I give you to
understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus
accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by
the Holy Ghost.
4 Now there are diversities of
gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of
administrations, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of
operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7 But the
manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit
the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same
Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of
miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to
another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of
tongues:
11 But all these
worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally
as he will.
12 For as the body is one, and hath
many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one
body: so also is Christ.
13 For by one
Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or
Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to
drink into one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member,
but many.
15 If the foot shall say, Because I
am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
16 And if the ear shall say, Because
I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
17 If the whole body were an
eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing,
where were the smelling?
18 But now hath God set the members
every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
19 And if they were all one member,
where were the body?
20 But now are they many
members, yet but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say unto the
hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no
need of you.
22 Nay, much more those members of
the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
23 And those members of the
body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more
abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant
comeliness.
24 For our comely parts have
no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more
abundant honour to that part which lacked:
25 That there should be no schism in
the body; but that the members should have the same care one for
another.
26 And whether one member suffer,
all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members
rejoice with it.
27 Now ye are the body of Christ,
and members in particular.
28 And God hath set some in the
church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that
miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of
tongues.
29 Are all
apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all
workers of miracles?
30 Have all the gifts of healing? do
all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
31 But covet earnestly the best
gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
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