1Now concerning spiritual gifts,
brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
2Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away
unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
3Wherefore I give you to understand, that no
man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus
accursed: and that no
man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy
Ghost.
4Now there are diversities of gifts, but the
same Spirit.
5And there are differences of
administrations, but the same Lord.
6And there are diversities of operations, but
it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7But the manifestation of the Spirit is given
to every man to profit withal.
8For to one is given by the Spirit the word
of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the
same Spirit;
9To another faith by the same Spirit; to
another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10To 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:
11But all these worketh that one and the
selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as
he will.
12For as the body is one, and hath many
members, and all the members of that one body, being
many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13For by one Spirit are we all baptized into
one body, whether we
be Jews or Gentiles, whether we
be bond or free; and have been all made to
drink into one Spirit.
14For the body is not one member, but many.
15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the
hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of
the body?
16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not
the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not
of the body?
17If the whole body were an
eye, where were the
hearing? If the whole were hearing,
where were the
smelling?
18But now hath God set the members every one
of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
19And if they were all one member, where were the
body?
20But now are
they many members, yet but one body.
21And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I
have no need of thee: nor again the head to the
feet, I have no need of you.
22Nay, much more those members of the body,
which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
23And those members of
the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon
these we bestow more abundant honour; and our
uncomely parts have
more abundant comeliness.
24For our comely parts have
no need: but God hath tempered the body together,
having given more abundant honour to that part which
lacked:
25That there should be no schism in the body;
but that the
members should have the same care one for another.
26And whether one member suffer, all the
members suffer with it; or one member be honoured,
all the members rejoice with it.
27Now ye are the body of Christ, and members
in particular.
28And God hath set some in the church, first
apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers,
after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps,
governments, diversities of tongues.
29Are all
apostles? are all
prophets? are all
teachers? are all
workers of miracles?
30Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak
with tongues? do all interpret?
31But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet
shew I unto you a more excellent way.