12:1 Now concerning spiritual {gifts,} brethren, I do not want you to be unaware. |
12:2 You know that when you were pagans, {you were} led astray to the mute idols, however you were led. |
12:3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed; and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit." |
12:4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. |
12:5 And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. |
12:6 There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all {persons.} |
12:7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. |
12:8 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; |
12:9 to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, |
12:10 and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another {various} kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues. |
12:11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills. |
12:12 For even as the body is one and {yet} has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. |
12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. |
12:14 For the body is not one member, but many. |
12:15 If the foot says, "Because I am not a hand, I am not {a part} of the body, it is not for this reason any the less {a part} of the body." |
12:16 And if the ear says, "Because I am not an eye, I am not {a part} of the body, it is not for this reason any the less {a part} of the body." |
12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? |
12:18 But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. |
12:19 If they were all one member, where would the body be? |
12:20 But now there are many members, but one body. |
12:21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you; or again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you."" |
12:22 On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; |
12:23 and those {members} of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable, |
12:24 whereas our more presentable members have no need {of it.} But God has {so} composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that {member} which lacked, |
12:25 so that there may be no division in the body, but {that} the members may have the same care for one another. |
12:26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if {one} member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. |
12:27 Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it. |
12:28 And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, {various} kinds of tongues. |
12:29 All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not {workers of} miracles, are they? |
12:30 All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they? |
12:31 But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way. |