Let God
1 Corinthians 12
1 Now concerning
spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant:
2 You know that you
were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led.
3 Therefore I make
known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and
no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are diversities
of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 There are differences
of ministries, but the same Lord.
6 And there are
diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
7 But the manifestation
of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:
8 for to one is given
the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through
the same Spirit, 9 to
another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same
Spirit, 10 to another
the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits,
to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of
tongues. 11 But one
and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one
individually as He wills.
12 For as the body is
one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are
one body, so also is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit
we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or
free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For in fact the
body is not one member but many.
15 If the foot should
say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the
body? 16 And if the
ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore
not of the body? 17 If
the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the
whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
18 But now God has set
the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
19 And if they were
all one member, where would the body be?
20 But now indeed
there are many members, yet one body.
21 And the eye cannot
say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I
have no need of you.” 22
No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are
necessary. 23 And
those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these
we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater
modesty, 24 but our
presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given
greater honor to that part which lacks it,
25 that there should
be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care
for one another. 26
And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one
member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now you are the
body of Christ, and members individually.
28 And God has
appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers,
after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties
of tongues. 29 Are
all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all
workers of miracles? 30
Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
31 But earnestly
desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.