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.