1Corinthians:12:12-31

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* For just as the body is one and has many members , and all the members of the body , although they be many , are one body ; so also is Christ . * And we can see this , for in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body , whether Jew or Gentile , whether slave or free , and we were all made to drink of one Spirit . * For the body is not one member , but many . * If the foot should say , "Because I am a hand , I am not part a part the body ," would it not indeed be a part of the body ? * Or if the ear should say , "Because I am not an eye , I am not a part of the body ," would it be any less a part of the body ? * If the whole body were an eye , where were hearing ? If all were hearing , where were smelling ? * But now God has set the members , each one of them , in the body as it has pleased him . * If all were one member , where would the body be ? * But now there are many members , but one body . * And the eye cannot say to the hand , "I have no need of you ". nor again of head to the feet , "I have no need for you ." * On the contrary , we need those members of the body which seem to be weaker ; * upon those parts of the body which we esteem less honorable , we bestow more abundant honor , and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness . * For whereas our comely parts have no need , God has tempered the body together , giving more abundant honor to that member in which lacked ; * that there should be no disunion in the body , but that members mutual care for one another . * When one member suffers , all the others suffer with it ; and when one member is honored , all the members are glad with it . * Now you are the body of Christ , and individually members of it . * And God has appointed those in the church to be first of all apostles , second , prophets , third , teachers . then workers of miracles , healers , helpers , administrators , users of various kinds of "tongues ." * Are all apostles ? Are all prophets ? teachers ? workers of miracles ? * Have all gifts of healing ? Do all speak with tongues ? Do all interpret ? * Desire earnestly the greater gifts . And yet I will go on to show you a still more excellent way .

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