1 Corinthians 12

¹Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

²You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were carried away.

³Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says 'Jesus is accursed,' and no one is able to say 'Jesus is Lord,' except in the Holy Spirit.

⁴Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;

⁵and there are varieties of services, and the same Lord;

⁶and there are varieties of workings, but it is the same God who works all things in everyone.

⁷Now to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

⁸For to one is given through the Spirit a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

⁹to a different one, faith by the same Spirit, and to another, gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

¹⁰to another workings of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues;

¹¹Now all these things the one and the same Spirit works, distributing individually to each one just as he wills.

¹²For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so also is Christ.

¹³For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body — whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free — and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

¹⁴For indeed the body is not one member but many.

¹⁵If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' it is not for this reason any the less part of the body.

¹⁶And if the ear should say, 'Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,' it is not for that reason not of the body.

¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

¹⁸But now God has arranged the members, each one of them, in the body just as he desired.

¹⁹And if all were one member, where would the body be?

²⁰But now there are many members, yet one body.

²¹And the eye is not able to say to the hand, 'I have no need of you,' or again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you.'

²²On the contrary, those members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,

²³and those members of the body that we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor, and our unpresentable parts have greater presentability,

²⁴but our presentable parts have no need. But God has blended the body together, having given more abundant honor to the lacking part,

²⁵so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

²⁶And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

²⁷Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

²⁸And these God has appointed in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then works of power, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.

²⁹Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?

³⁰Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?

³¹But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way.