1Corinthians:12

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* Now concerning spiritual gifts , brethren , I would not have you ignorant . * Ye know , that when ye were gentiles , ye were carried away to dumb idols , as ye happened to be led ; * wherefore I give you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God saith , Accursed be Jesus ; and that no one can say , Jesus is Lord , but by the Holy Spirit . * Now there are diversities of gifts , but the same Spirit ; * and there are diversities of services , but the same Lord ; * and there are diversities of operations , but it is the same God who worketh all things in all . * But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the good of others . * For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom ; to another the word of knowledge , according to the same Spirit ; * to another faith , by the same Spirit ; to another the gifts of healing , by the one Spirit ; * 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 . * But all these worketh the one and self –same Spirit , allotting to each one severally as it will . * For as the body is one , and hath many members , and all the members of the body , being many , are one body , so it is with Christ . * For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body , whether Jews or Greeks , whether slaves or freemen ; and were all made to drink one Spirit . * For the body also is not one member , but many . * If the foot say , Because I am not a hand , I am not of the body , is it for this reason not of the body ? * And if the ear say , Because I am not an eye , I am not of the body , is it for this reason not of the body ? * If the whole body were an eye , where would be the hearing ? If the whole were hearing , where would be the smelling ? * But as it is , God set the members every one of them in the body , as it pleased him . * And if they were all one member , where would be the body ? * But now there are , indeed , many members , but one body . * And the eye cannot say to the hand , I have no need of thee ; nor , again , the head to the feet , I have no need of you . * Nay , still more , those members of the body which seem to be weak , are necessary ; * and what we think to be less honorable parts of the body , upon these we bestow more abundant honor ; and our unseemly parts have more abundant seemliness ; * while our seemly parts have no need . But God so put the body together , as to give special honor to that part which lacked , * that there might be no schism in the body , but that the members should have the same care one for another . * And so if one member suffereth , all the members suffer with it ; or if one member is honored , all the members rejoice with it . * Now ye are the body of Christ , and members individually . And * God appointed some in the church to be , in the first place , apostles , in the second place , prophets , in the third place , teachers , then miracles , then gifts of healing , those of helping and of governing , divers kinds of tongues . Are all apostles ? * Are all prophets ? Are all teachers ? Are all workers of miracles ? * Have all the gifts of healing ? Do all speak with tongues ? Do all interpret ? * But desire earnestly the greater gifts . And furthermore I show you by far the most excellent way .

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