1Corinthians:12

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* Now , concerning spiritual gifts , brethren , I would not have you ignorant . * You know that you were Gentiles , led away to dumb idols , even as you happened to be led . * Wherefore , I inform you , that no one , speaking by the Spirit of God , pronounces Jesus accursed ; and , that no one can declare Jesus Lord , except by the Holy Spirit . * Now , there are diversities of gifts , but the same spirit . * And there are diversities of ministries , but the same Lord . * And there are diversities of operations , but the same God , who works all in all . * And to each is given this manifestation of the Spirit , for the advantage of all . * For to one , indeed , is given , by the Spirit , the word of wisdom : and to another , the word of knowledge , according to the same Spirit . * And to another , faith , by the same Spirit : and to another , healing , by the same Spirit : * and to another , the operations of powers : and to another , prophecy : and to another , diverse kinds of foreign tongues : and to another , the interpretation of foreign tongues . * Now , all these does the one and the same Spirit effectively work ; distributing to each , respectively , as he pleases . * For , as the body is one , although it have many members ; and all the members of that one body , being many , are one body , so also is Christ . * For , indeed , by one Spirit , we all have been immersed into one body ; whether Jews or Greeks , whether slaves or freemen ; and all have been made to drink of one Spirit . * Since , then , the body is not one member , but many ; * if the foot shall say , Because I am not the hand , I am not of the body ; is it , for this , not of the body ? * And if the ear shall say , Because I am not the eye , I am not of the body ; is it , for this , not of the body ? * If the whole body were an eye , where were the hearing ? If the whole were hearing , where were the smelling ? * But , now , God has placed the members , every one of them , in the body , as he has pleased . * Besides , if all were one member , where were the body ? * But now , indeed , there are many members , but one body . * Therefore , the eye can not say to the hand , I have no need of you : nor , again , the head to the feet , I have no need of you . * Nay , those members of the body which seem to be more feeble , are necessary . * And those which we think are less honorable members of the body , around them we throw more abundant honor ; and so our uncomely members have more abundant comeliness . * But , our comely members have no need . However , God has tempered the body together ; having given to the member which wants it , more abundant honor . * That there may be no schism in the body ; but , that the members may have the very same anxious care , one for another . * So , whether one member suffer , all the members sympathize ; or , one member be honored , all the members rejoice together . * Now , you are Christ 's body , and members in particular . * And these , indeed , God has placed in the congregation : first , Apostles ; secondly , prophets ; thirdly , teachers ; next , powers ; then , gifts of healing ; helpers , directors , kinds of foreign languages . * Are all Apostles ? are all prophets ? are all teachers ? have all powers ? * have all the gift of healing ? do all speak in foreign languages ? do all interpret ? * Now , ardently desire the best gifts ; and yet I show you a more excellent way .

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